Medical Errors Now The Third Leading Cause Of Death In The US, Study Indicates.

reports that the study authors “wrote that strategies to reduce death from medical care should include making errors ‘more visible’ when they occur, having remedies available to ‘rescue patients,’ and making errors less frequent by following principles that take ‘human limitations’ into account.” According to the Washington Post (5/3, Cha), “in 1999, an Institute of Medicine report [pdf] calling preventable medical errors an ‘epidemic’ shocked the medical establishment and led to significant debate about what could be done.” The institute, “based on one study, estimated deaths because of medical errors as high as 98,000” annually. The new research, published in the BMJ, “involves a more comprehensive analysis of four large studies...that took place between 2000 to 2008.” http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/03/second-study-says-medical-errors-third-leading-cause-death-us/83874022/