"Medical mistake" turned out to be the third leading cause of American death

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By the latest excavation survey etc.,TutankamenYaCleopatra,Mistress of King FrenchAlthough the cause of the death of a historical person is known, in the modern America it is 250,000 people lost their lives every year due to "medical mistakes", the result of the survey that it is the third leading cause of death among Americans Was announced.

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America Disease Control Center(CDC), concerning the cause of death and the number of deaths of Americans who died in 2015, 1st place is 613,448 people with heart disease and 2,691 thousand people with cancerAnnouncementdoing. Mr. Martin Makary and Michael Daniel, researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said that "Those who died due to medical errors are much more than those who died due to medical errors," third place is 147,101 people with respiratory disease I point out.

However, the US government does not recognize the death of a patient due to a medical error. Because the US government uses it as a statistic of cause of deathInternational disease classification(ICD) because there is no classification "death due to medical error".

So Mr. Makary and Mr. Daniel compared government data after hospital 2013 with hospital hospitalization rate to confirm mortality due to medical errors. Then, it is estimated that about 250,000 people in the year estimate that they are dying due to medical errors. It turned out that a medical error occupied 9.5% of the American cause of death.

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Mr. Makary and Mr. Daniel said, "Clinicians share new treatments for diseases such as coronary artery disease, melanoma, and influenza with other doctors. Similarly, if data on medical errors are shared internationally , We will be able to improve the causes of medical errors. "

Meanwhile, both researchers also said that "medical mistakes due to human errors can not be avoided, and deaths of patients due to medical errors are not necessarily faults of doctors." According to Mr. Makary and Daniel, "There is room to improve into a more effective and safe system by introducing a monitoring system to record medical errors," as a way of reducing medical errors , The death certificate raises the item of "Does the patient died of complications that could be prevented by prior medicine?" And raises medical mistakes quickly and accurately by hospitals.

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