Prevention and Management of Medical Errors
Is it truly the 3rd leading cause of death in America? According to the CDC , in 2015, 633,842 people died of heart disease, 595,930 died of cancer, and 155,041 died of chronic respiratory disease—the top three causes of death in the U.S. However, according to Dr. Martin Makary, MD, M.P.H a professor at John Hopkins and a recent study he conducted may prove the CDC wrong putting medical errors as the cause of death behind cancer but ahead of respiratory disease. Dr. Martin goes on to state that; “Incidence rates for deaths directly attributable to medical care gone awry haven’t been recognized in any standardized method for collecting national statistics,” says Martin Makary, M.D., M.P.H. , professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an authority on health reform. “The medical coding system was designed to maximize billing for physician services, not to collect national health statistics...