Forbes May 11, 2022
Two months ago, the Administration alarmed policymakers with new information on how patients fared in hospitals during the pandemic. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), senior officials at the CDC and CMS (the agency that runs Medicare) reported that since 2020, incidence of the most common hospital infections rose dramatically, as did other deadly mishaps like falls, surgical complications, wounds, and medication and medical errors. The officials declared patient safety their top health policy priority.
Even before the pandemic, errors, accidents, and infections in hospitals killed an estimated 20,000 Americans a month, equivalent to the third leading cause of death in America. Now whatever progress we made addressing this over the past few years has evaporated, according...
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