CEO SUMMARY: This year’s report to Congress on patient harm in hospitals—prepared by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG)—determined that one in four Medicare beneficiaries suffered harm while an inpatient in a hospital. The report garnered little attention outside the healthcare press. Moreover, the OIG’s findings about the incidence of patient harm in hospitals […]
OIG: 25% of Medicare Inpatients ‘Harmed in Hospitals’ Pre-COVID
Is It the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 publication ‘To Err Is Human’ redux?
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXIX, Number 9 - June 27, 2022 Issue
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