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Every year, at least 61,000 people die from "failure to rescue" mistakes, a new report found.
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By JoNel Aleccia
Health writer
MSNBC
updated 8:28 a.m. ET, Tues., April. 8, 2008
High-profile medical errors such as operating on the wrong body part or receiving a mistaken dose of drugs should take a back seat to a far more common and insidious mistake, a new report reveals.
For the fifth straight year, an analysis of errors in the nation’s hospitals found that the most reported patient safety risk is a little-known but always-fatal problem called “failure to rescue.” More.........
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