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The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Data 2023 Annual Review

August 21, 2024

What is a Sentinel Event? The Joint Commission defines a sentinel event as “a patient safety event (not primarily related to the natural course of the patient’s illness or underlying condition) that reaches a patient and results in:– Death– Permanent harm (regardless of severity [...]

Study Finds Nearly 800,000 Americans Are Permanently Disabled Or Die Annually From Misdiagnosis Of Disease

July 22, 2023

Nearly 800,000 Americans Are Permanently Disabled Or Die Annually From Misdiagnosis: A study entitled Burden of serious harms from diagnostic error in the USA published in the medical journal BMJ Quality & Safety in July 2023 reported: “An estimated 795 000 Americans become permanently d[...]

Physicians’ Attitudes Toward Medical Ethics, 2020

November 16, 2020

An article appearing on Medscape on November 13, 2020 entitled “Ethics 2020 Life, Death, and Painful Dilemmas A Decade of Changes in Physicians’ Attitudes” reported on the results of a survey of 5,130 physicians in the United States from July 25, 2020 to September 10, 2020 about se[...]

Iowa Patient Safety Study Reports On Iowans’ Views On Medical Errors

January 16, 2018

The Heartland Health Research Institute published in December 2017 the results of its Iowa Patient Safety Study that consisted of approximately 115 questions asked of randomly-selected Iowans about their views and experiences while interacting with Iowa healthcare providers. The study, entitled R[...]

Survey Of Physicians Finds They Believe Unnecessary Medical Care Driven By Medical Malpractice Concerns

September 10, 2017

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine surveyed physicians between January 22, 2014 and March 8, 2014, and on September 6, 2017 published their findings from the responses from 2,106 physicians. The researchers found that those physicians believe that unnecessary medical trea[...]

Doctors Practicing Medicine Not Highest Paid In Medical Industry

June 1, 2014

If you thought that physicians providing health care to patients were at or near the top of the list of the highest earners in the medical industry, you would be wrong — they are in the middle of the pack. An analysis undertaken on behalf of The New York Times found that the base pay […[...]

Main Cause Of Physician Shortage Is Lack Of Enough Residency Programs

November 23, 2013

One of the mantras of medical malpractice tort reform advocates is that “frivolous” medical malpractice lawsuits and the lack of caps (limits) on damages that innocent victims of medical malpractice may recover for their injuries are driving physicians from their practices, leading to a[...]

U.S. Health Care Statistics

November 15, 2013

In 2011, U.S. health care employed 15.7% of the U.S. workforce (1 in 25 health care employees is a physician); U.S. health care expenditures were $2.7 trillion; and, there were approximately 800,000 physicians and 2,700,000 nurses in the U.S. From 1980 to 2011, U.S. health care expenditur[...]

Who Pays For And Receives Health Care In the United States?

July 10, 2012

In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding as constitutional the federal health care overhaul law frequently referred to as “Obamacare,” we thought it appropriate to provide some recently released official statistics regarding health care services and the[...]

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