Advisory Board November 25, 2024
According to a new study published in the BMJ, over a third of patients admitted to the hospital for surgery experienced an adverse event, and at least 20% of these complications were due to medical errors.
Is clinical quality declining? A look at the data — and what you can do.
Study details and key findings
In the 1980s, the Harvard Medical Practice Study was one of the first studies to record rates of patient harm from healthcare. The findings from this study would later become the basis of a 1999 report from the National Academies of Sciences called “To Err is Human,” which spotlighted patient safety problems within healthcare settings.
For the new study, a team of researchers...
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