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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Health Care Negligence Affecting Hospitalized Patients from Medical News Today

A recent study, published on bmj.com, states that although lack of necessary hospital equipment and low staff numbers cause problems in the overall well-being of a hospital, insubstantial teaching, low monitoring of staff practices, and workers not following hospital regulations are far more detrimental to the health and treatment of patients in hospitals.

The study claims that an estimated 1 patient per day in a hospital dies due to the negligence of hospital staff. The study claims these deaths could have, and should have been prevented.

During their study, the researchers from the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation analyzed 25 hospitals spreading from Tunisa, Sudan, South African, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan, Kenya and Morocco. They determined that although patients in hospital are obviously admitted because they are sick, many times, patients die because of poor health care, and not actually the health problem they were admitted for.

For the full article please go here.

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