Sentence examples for preventable to from inspiring English sources
It points out that Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England's medical director, is co-author of a BMJ article last month which says in a section interpreting the "weekend effect" in hospitals: "It is not possible to ascertain the extent to which these excess deaths may be preventable, to assume that they are avoidable would be rash and misleading".
They point out that the co-authors of the study, which include NHS England's national medical director, Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, clearly warned in their paper that "it is not possible to ascertain the extent to which [of] these [11,000] deaths may be preventable; to assume they are avoidable would be rash and misleading".
Keogh's September 2015 report for the British Medical Journal found that 11,000 more patients a year die within 30 days of going into hospital if they are admitted for treatment between Friday and Monday, but he said it was "not possible to ascertain the extent to which these excess deaths may be preventable; to assume that they are avoidable would be rash and misleading".
Falls, which are both predictable and preventable to a large extent, can result in considerable physical, psychological, and economic costs.
We found that no-harm incidents occurred in as many as a quarter of orthopedic admissions and were preventable to a high degree (79.7%).
Admissions deemed preventable will be compared with those deemed not preventable to identify patient, clinician and system factors associated with preventable admissions.
Global leaders should do more to prevent the preventable, and to counter the cruelty taking place before our eyes.
Preventable admissions to hospital remain high relative to less remote regions.
But one-third to three-quarters of infections are preventable, according to varying estimates.
Up to now, over 20 diseases are preventable due to successful vaccination.
Adverse events may be due to medical errors, in which case they are preventable, or to factors that are not preventable.
