More than 1 in 3 surgical patients has complications, study finds, and many are the result of medical errors
CNN — Despite decades of calls for more attention to patient safety in hospitals, people undergoing surgery still have high rates of complications and medical errors, a new study finds. But the latest study, which was published Thursday in the BMJ, fits into a pattern of evidence going back decades, suggesting that hospitals haven’t made much progress on patient safety. “It’s pretty disturbing,” said Helen Haskell, an expert who became a reluctant patient safety advocate after her son, Lewis Blackman, died at the age of 15 following complications from surgery to correct a condition called pectus excavatum, or a sunken chest. “These are longstanding issues that are not really being properly addressed, because I think they’re not as high in the consciousness of either patients or health care providers as they should be,” she said.
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