US hospital error claims exaggerated, study asserts
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The number of medical mistakes in US hospitals has been greatly overstated, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Some 5,000 to 15,000 patients die each year due to medical errors - far fewer than the 44,000 to 98,000 persons estimated in a widely-quoted study from the Institute of Medicine (IoM), the study concludes.