Nearly 1 in 4 patients who are admitted to a hospital in the United States will experience harm, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
·Nearly 1 in 4 patients who are admitted to a hospital in the United States will experience harm, according to a study published Wednesday in theThe stark findings underscore that, despite decades of effort, hospitals in the United States still have a long way to go to improve“These numbers are disappointing, but not shocking,” said Dr. David Bates, chief of general medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, who led the study. “They do show we still have lots of work to do.
“It’s clear that, at least, the rate is not going down and that harm continues to be a really serious issue,” Bates said. For example, drug companies have made significant advances over the three decades since the last report was published, but with an abundance of available drugs comes more opportunity for medication-related errors.
Linda Aiken, a professor and founding director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at Penn Nursing in Philadelphia, said that at the heart of the“Since we’ve been doing research on patient safety, we consistently find that one of the major explanations for poor patient outcomes is insufficient numbers of nurses at the bedside,” she said. “Having a sufficient number of nurses is a building block for safety.
“Practices evolve so that nonpreventable errors can be prevented by changes in practice,” Wu said. “For example, if you completely stop using a medication that [has a] high rate of nonpreventable adverse effects, those adverse effects won’t happen anymore.”
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