Lucian Leape, a Harvard University professor who conducted the most
comprehensive study of medical errors in the United States, has
estimated
that one million patients nationwide are injured by errors during
hospital
treatment each year and that 120,000 die as a result.
-- Harvard University

In their study, Leape and his colleagues examined patient records at
hospitals throughout the state of New York. Their 1991 report found
that one
of every 200 patients admitted to a hospital died as a result of a
hospital
error.

That number of deaths is the equivalent of what would occur if a jumbo
jet
crashed every day; it is three times the 43,000 people killed each year
in
U.S. automobile accidents.

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