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...This is the largest, most comprehensive study of its kind carried out," said Professor of Medicine Howard H. Hiatt, the principal investigator in the Harvard Medical Practice Study. Hiatt is affiliated with both the Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Cambridge...
According to the report, as many as 100,000 hospital patients were injured by "adverse events" that lead to prolonged hospitalization, disability, or death, Hiatt said...
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...