{"id":20898,"date":"2023-02-17T09:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20898"},"modified":"2023-02-17T09:25:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:25:44","slug":"improving-patient-safety-shouldnt-be-a-financial-calculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20898","title":{"rendered":"Improving patient safety shouldn\u2019t be a financial calculation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Michael L Millenson on February 17, 2023 for Stat News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMsa2206117\" target=\"_blank\"><br><\/a>\u00a0A recent study of medical error published in The New England Journal of Medicine reached a shocking conclusion about patient safety: Nearly a quarter century after a highly publicized\u00a0Institute of Medicine report on the prevalence of patient harm sparked\u00a0vows to cut the rate by half in five years, \u201cin-hospital adverse events\u201d remain so common that they affect roughly one in four patients. At larger institutions, the rate can be\u00a040% or higher.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/02\/17\/improving-patient-safety-shouldnt-be-a-financial-calculation\/\"> Here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-7924\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg 2121w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael L Millenson on February 17, 2023 for Stat News \u00a0A recent study of medical error published in The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[467],"class_list":["post-20898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","tag-patient-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20899,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898\/revisions\/20899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}