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First-time Minnesota study finds 20 fatal hospital errors.
Jan. 20--In the first public disclosure of its kind, Minnesota hospitals acknowledged medical errors that caused 20 deaths and four serious disabilities over a 15-month period, according to a report released Wednesday.
Thirty hospitals across the state reported preventable errors such as bedsores, fatal falls or surgery on the wrong body part or patient. In all, there were 99 cases of preventable errors during the study period from July 1, 2003, to October 6, 2004.
The report, which was required by a new state law, provides a baseline in measuring a problem that so far has lacked reliable comparisons nationally. There is no way to compare Minnesota's results nationally because no state has conducted a similar report.
State health officials hope the data and future reports will reveal systemic weaknesses and lead to reforms that reduce the likelihood and severity of errors.
"The true value of our new reporting system lies not in the numbers but in the underlying evaluation in the…
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