Medical Economics September 6, 2022
The need for integrated patient care to help reduce medical errors, a $20B plague for U.S.
The U.S. health care system, among the best in the world with highly skilled clinicians trained at the world’s leading medical schools, suffers a fatal flaw: medical errors, which are responsible for roughly 1 in 10 American deaths and cost the country $20 billion a year. Nearly 2 out of 3 of these errors are rooted in poor communication among the care team.
Poor communication ranges from a misheard word in a noisy emergency department to a mistaken patient identity. Breakdowns are most likely to occur in patient handoffs across departments, from primary to secondary care, at the change of shifts, and across professional...
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