Only 1 In 7 Hospital Errors Reported, Study Finds

Hospital employees recognize and report only one out of seven errors, accidents and other events that harmMedicare patients while they are hospitalized, federal investigators say in a new report.


Yet even after hospitals investigate preventable injuries and infections that have been reported, they rarely change their practices to prevent repetition of the “adverse events,” according to the study, from Daniel R. Levinson, inspector general of theDepartment of Health and Human Services.


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