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.
Posted by Editor at October 20, 2003 10:41 AM