Court Report

Malpractice

"Hospitals can be hazardous to your health." That spoonful of warning can be gleaned from the American Medical Association (AMA) report, which further gives us these alarming (read: scary) findings. A common ground for malpractice litigation (in the US as well as Canada) is medication error. Of the 40 hospitals surveyed, some hair-raising (and life-threatening) 3,427 mistakes were unearthed. In 90,000 malpractice claims over a period of seven years, medication error is the second most prevalent and second most expensive.

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Posted by Editor at October 20, 2003 10:52 AM