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Article: The impact of medical errors on ninety-day costs and outcomes: an examination of surgical patients.(Patient Safety and Medical Errors)(Report)
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- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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The Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America was established in 1998 by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and its first report estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans die each year due as a result of medical mistakes, with an associated cost of $17-$29 billion (see To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health Care System, Kohn et al. 2000). It is now 8 years after the IOM report and patient safety rates across the country remain high despite modest improvements in overall quality. Of the 40 core measures tracked by the "National Healthcare Quality Report" (2006), 26 showed improvements, two showed deterioration, and 12 showed no change between 2005 and ...