Sunday, May 23, 2004

The Glories of Canadian Socialized Medicine - Coming to Amerika Soon

"* One in 13 people who go into hospital suffer an adverse event.

* Based on 2.5-million admissions in 2000, that means 140,000 to 232,000 people suffered them.

* 37% of those were preventable.

* These events added an average of six days to a hospital stay.

* One in five people who had an adverse event went on to die; 9% of adverse events were categorized as highly preventable.

* The most common types of adverse events related to surgeries, followed by drug- or fluid-related events."

“Hospital death toll alarming."

Via Google News.

Posted by John Venlet on 05/23 at 03:53 AM
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