Medical errors are an ongoing problem in the healthcare industry–recent studies suggest that 250,000 people a year die due to such mistakes–but some simple steps may help hospitals reduce the amount of patient harm.
James Lieber, a Pittsburgh attorney and author of Killer Care: How Medical Error Became America’s Third Largest Cause of Death and What Can Be Done About It,writes in The Wall Street Journal that five reforms will cut back on the number of medical mistakes:
