Word: hiatt
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Erroneous drug prescriptions and wound infections topped the list of care-induced injuries, accounting for over 33 percent of these "adverse effects," Hiatt explained. Surgical mistakes accounted for more than half of the remaining injuries, he added...
...even more startling finding attributed 70 percent of emergency room misdiagnoses and botched treatments to negligence, according to Hiatt. He added, however, that according to the study, only one quarter of incidences of medical malpractice can actually be attributed to negligence...
...Hiatt went on to say that current methods of compensation for substandard care in the form of malpractice are insufficient...
...problem of medical malpractice and the tort litigation system are not satisfactory to anybody today," Hiatt said...
...York's, rather than Massachusetts's, hospital system was studied, Hiatt said, primarily because of New York's willingness to extend economic support and provide vast amounts of complex, highly sensitive data. New York State contributed $3.5 million to the $4 million cost of the study, Hiatt said...