More Than 100,000 Preventable Patient Deaths Occur In Hospitals Every Year

According to the National Institute of Medicine, more than 100,000 patients die in hospitals every year as a result of avoidable errors. Errors may be committed by doctors, nurses, radiology techs, pathology secretaries, aides, food service workers, computer programmers, lab techs, or any of the more than 100 employee classifications working in hospitals. See the full report of the National Institute of Health, entitled To Err Is Human, www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309068371