不該發生的手術錯誤：具體數據

Avoidable Mistakes

Researchers identified 9,744 malpractice payments tied to surgical 'never events' between September 1990 and September 2010. A breakdown:

Foreign object left behind 49.8%

Wrong procedure 25.1%

Wrong site 24.8%

Wrong patient 0.3%

Between 1990 and 2010, malpractice payments for such 'never events' reported to a database totaled $1.3 billion.

The mean payment was$133,055.

Wrong procedures were the costliest 'never events,' with a median payment of $106,777.

The lowest payouts were for foreign objects left behind, with a median payment of$33,953.

Source: Johns Hopkins

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