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Preventable hospital errors cause 195,000 U.S. deaths a year, twice as many as previously believed, according to a recent nationwide study of Medicare data. The new findings put hospital errors in third place among the leading causes of death in the United States, following heart disease and cancer. (Health Grades, Inc., Patient Safety in American Hospitals (2004) .)
"The equivalent of 390 jumbo jets full of people are dying each year due to preventable, in-hospital medical errors, making this one of the leading killers in the United States," said Samantha Collier; vice president of medical affairs at Health Grades, which conducted the study. The results also show…
Source: HighBeam Research, Deaths from hospital errors double 1999 estimates.