Non reimbursable medical errors

Friday 26th June 2009: HCFI In the USA the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services doe not reimburse hospitals for the treatment of eight major preventable errors.  The hospitals cannot bill a patient for the cost of fixing these mistakes, said Dr KK Aggarwal President Heart Care Foundation of India and Director IMAAKN Sinha Institute.
These are falls; mediastinitis (an infection that can develop after heart surgery); urinary tract infections resulting from catheters; bed sores, bloodstream infections resulting from catheters; objects left in the body during surgery; air embolisms and blood incompatibility.
1st July doctors day
Hospital safety incidents have 20% mortality
Saturday 26th June 2009 HCFI: Patients who experience a patient safety incident have a 20 percent chance of dying as a result of the incident, said Dr KK Aggarwal President Heart Care Foundation of India and Director IMAAKN Sinha Institute.
Sixteen different patient safety concerns are

o       Complications of anesthesia
o        Death in low mortality diagnosis related groups .
o       Bed sores
o       Failure to rescue
o       Foreign body left in during procedure
o       Physician induced pneumothorax ( air in the lungs)
o       Selected infections due to medical care
o       Post-operative hip fracture
o       Post-operative hemorrhage or hematoma
o       Post-operative physiologic and metabolic derangements
o       Post-operative lung failure
o       Post-operative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis (clot in the legs or the lungs)
o       Post-operative infections
o       Post-operative wound dehiscence in abdominopelvic surgical patients,
o       Accidental puncture or laceration, and
o       Transfusion reaction.