Sentence examples for preventable mistakes from inspiring English sources

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Mr. Lieberman said about 100,000 Americans died each year from preventable mistakes, at a cost of $29 billion.

The employers' group was formed last year after a study by the Institute of Medicine unit of the National Academy of Sciences said at least 44,000 hospital patients died each year because of preventable mistakes.

That said, I would happily endorse the proposed Medicare policy change, if we as taxpayers could hold our government and military to the same standards and refuse to pay for any of their "preventable" mistakes.

Published by the Institute of Medicine, "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System" estimated that as many as 98,000 people died in hospitals each year as a result of preventable mistakes.

Hundreds of hospital patients have suffered basic, preventable mistakes that should "never" happen in the NHS during the last four years including having surgical instruments left inside them and operations being carried out on the wrong body part, figures suggest.

"We are concerned that we find ourselves helping hundreds of thousands of people each year who come to a Trussell Trust foodbank simply because government departments make avoidable, preventable mistakes".

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But I knew it happened, that it was an easily preventable mistake, and, in journalism, being wrong in that way is absolutely unacceptable.

If you work everything out in your head, you could lose track of your work and make a preventable mistake.

• To the Editor: If rationing means stopping 100,000 deaths from hospital-acquired infections every year, and another 100,000 deaths from preventable medical mistakes, I'm all for it.

Focusing on health care issues as he swung through New Hampshire, the crucial first-primary state, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut outlined a proposal to cut in half the number of preventable medical mistakes in five years.

Thus, the field as a whole is often deprived of the opportunity to benefit from experience and is prone to repeat the mistake, if indeed it is a preventable error.

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