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Per a 2017 article titled, “Your Health Care May Kill You: Medical Errors”, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28186008/ and 9781614997429.pdf, we are told that medical mistakes are the third leading cause of deaths in the USA.Damn! Not only do you have to deal with the stress and aberrant lifestyle of heart disease, and the multi-toxin environment of cancer, you then have to deal with medical mistakes from the industry that is supposed to supposedly care about your health first and foremost.
The older we get, the less we are supposed to believe in what life experience and exposure teaches us is just not true.
Per https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139, medical error has been defined as an unintended act (either of omission or commission) or one that does not achieve its intended outcome, the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended (an error of execution), the use of a wrong plan [protocol, treatment regimen] to achieve an aim (an error of planning), or a deviation from the process of care that may or may not cause harm to the patient.
The annual list of the most common causes of death in the United States, compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is created using death certificates filled out by physicians, funeral directors, medical examiners, and coroners. However, a major limitation of the death certificate is that it relies on assigning an International Classification of Disease (ICD) code to the cause of death. As a result, causes of death not associated with an ICD code, such as human [error] and system factors, are not captured.The most commonly cited estimate of annual deaths from medical error in the US is a 1999 report that is limited and outdated. The report describes an incidence of 44,000 – 98,000 deaths annually. This conclusion was not based on primary research conducted by the institute but on the1984 Harvard Medical Practice Study and the 1992 Utah and Colorado Study. But as early as 1993, a chief investigator in the 1984 Harvard study, argued that the study’s estimate was too low, contending that 78% rather than 51% of the 180,000 deaths caused by medical examination or treatment, were preventable (some argue that all such deaths are preventable, Usekhu agrees). This higher incidence (about 140,400 deaths due to error) has been supported by subsequent studies which suggest the1999 report underestimates the magnitude of the problem.
A 2004 report of inpatient deaths associated with the Medicare population, estimated that 575,000 deaths were caused by medical error between 2000 and 2002, which is about 195,000 deaths a year. Similarly, the USDHHS, examined the health records of hospital inpatients in 2008, and found 180,000 deaths due to medical error a year among Medicare beneficiaries alone. Using similar methods, a death rate of 1.13% was derived. If this rate is applied to all registered US hospital admissions in 2013, it translates to over 400 000 deaths a year, more than four times the 1999 estimate.Of note, none of the studies captured deaths outside inpatient care—those resulting from errors in care at home or in nursing homes and in outpatient care such as ambulatory surgery centers.
James estimated preventable adverse events using a weighted analysis and described an incidence range of 210,000-400,000 deaths a year associated with medical errors among hospital patients. We calculated an average rate of death from medical error of 251,454 a year using the studies reported since the 1999 report and extrapolating to the total number of US hospital admissions in 2013. Despite this adjustment, we still believe this understates the true incidence of death due to medical error because the studies we cited rely on data we could extract from documented health records and only include inpatient deaths.
The assumptions made in extrapolating study data to the broader US population limits the accuracy of our estimate. This highlights the need for a national system of capturing medical errors from all facilities and locations.
There's no reason to believe that since the date of this 2017 report, that medical errors have decreased or decreased significantly.
Thus we can safely estimate deaths due to medical errors in the covid years of 2021 and 2021 would be 1,000,000 million each year, thus, way more than covid itself, thus making healthcare facilities more dangerous killers.
Medical mistakes must increase when healthcare workers are overwhelmed with covid cases and new and ever-changing treatment procedures.
As a basic repeat reminder to the inevitable deniers of revealed truths relating to fundamental weaknesses in institutions they bet their life on, such as the healthcare industry and the science they follow, please understand clearly that the 1999 estimate of 251,000 deaths due to medical errors is based on data from only 25 hospitals. Not only is this extremely low for the number of hospitals, but it does not take into account any other type of health care medical facility, including omitting such places as dialysis centers or blood donation centers, for instance.
