Death and injury from medical mistakes is much more common than from workplace accidents. We need open processes for investigating them.
The analyses of needless deaths in both the U.S. and Canada point to a culture of secrecy. “Currently, deaths caused by errors are unmeasured and discussions about prevention occur in limited and confidential forums, such as a hospital’s internal root cause analysis committee or a department’s morbidity and mortality conference,” researchers atstate in reference to U.S. hospitals.
Alarming as they are, these estimates don’t count the needless deaths in outpatient care at ambulatory surgical centers, in nursing homes, at medical clinics or at home. Neither do they count what are literally untold numbers of cases where preventable medical injuries stopped short of death.Article content
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