Studies find high cost, high error in U.S. healthcare
Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, January 22, 2008
A recent article of International Medical Travel Journal (IMTJ) reports that recent studies suggest U.S. healthcare, despite high spending, is not up to par.
IMTJ cited a recent John Hopkins University study that found 225,000 deaths each year were caused by medical errors--a figure IMTJ says "would make America's health system the third-leading cause of death in the nation." The IMTJ report also cited a Medicare study that found no correlation between spending and quality of care, and a 2000 Institute of Medicine study that put the number of Americans killed by medical mistakes in one year at 100,000.
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