Avoidable Patient Errors: Nov. 18 International Symposium

    


    
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<p><span class="xn-location">DETROIT</span>, <span class="xn-chron">Nov. 11, 2010</span> /CNW/ -- Preventable hospital errors kill up to 98,000 hospital patients a year in the U.S., and another 24,000 in <span class="xn-location">Canada</span>.</p>
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    And there is more:

    --  From 2006-08, there were 958,202 patient safety events, including
        99,180 in-hospital deaths among Medicare patients in the U.S.
    --  20 percent of hospital patients experience adverse events, and 15
        million patients are injured annually.
    --  2 million hospital-acquired infections each year in the U.S.
    --  The cost of medical error to the U.S. economy each year is estimated
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        be at least $17 billion.
    --  Under-reporting of adverse events in health care is estimated to range
        from 50-90 percent.

    
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<p>On <span class="xn-chron">Thursday, Nov. 18</span>, Detroit's <span class="xn-person">Henry Ford</span> Hospital and Windsor's Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital will co-host the International Patient Safety Symposium - featuring experts both hospitals - from <span class="xn-chron">8 a.m.</span> to <span class="xn-chron">4 p.m.</span>, in Caesars Windsor, 377 Riverside Drive East, Windsor.</p>
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<p>The symposium is designed for health care providers and will include the presentations:</p>
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    --  Making Patients Safer
    --  When Things Go Wrong - To Report or Not to Report
    --  Cut Harm in Half - A Big Hairy Audacious Goal
    --  A Multidisciplinary Approach to Data-Driven Surgical Quality
        Improvement
    --  Surviving Sepsis
    --  Creating Synergy: Linking Graduate Medical Education with
        Quality/Safety Initiatives

    
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<p>Patient safety researcher <span class="xn-person">Charles Vincent</span>, of the U.K. will open the conference with a videocast address.</p>
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<p>The first 200 people to register will receive a complimentary copy of Vincent's Patient Safety (2nd edition).</p>
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    For information and to register: http://www.hdgh.org/General/default.asp



    

For further information: Dwight Angell, [phone], [email protected] Web Site: http://www.henryford.com