The culture of the managment determines the safety level

[Mike Jenvey]

There is an interesting comparison of looking at the number of iatrogenic deaths in the USA each year - something you won't find the medical fraternity advertising in the media....... say 225,000 deaths in 2000 alone!!

Lots of the reports state that iatrogenic deaths are pretty high up in the statistical tables for the USA - anywhere between first to fifth!! A typical quote, very relevant to this thread:

Analyzing why there is so much medical error Leape acknowledged the lack of reporting. Unlike a jumbo-jet crash, which gets instant media coverage, hospital errors are spread out over the country in thousands of different locations. They are also perceived as isolated and unusual events. However, the most important reason that medical error is unrecognized and growing, according to Leape, was, and still is, that doctors and nurses are unequipped to deal with human error, due to the culture of medical training and practice.