Study finds much higher rate of annual errors.
Institute of Medicine's use of health care worker's comments about charts may help explain discrepancies. Study indicates nearly dollars 3 billion in excess Medicare costs every year. Superior hospitals had five deaths per 1,000 less than the hospitals in the bottom 10th percentile.
D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006278:Medicare; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D014481:United States