Medical Error Rate at Your Hospital – How Would You Know?
Monday, November 9, 2009 7:03 | Filled in Transparency
Ever wonder about your chances of developing a serious post-op infection, or ending up with something accidentally left inside after surgery at your local hospital? If your hospital is in New Jersey you now have a new way to look up that data, as well as other patient safety information.
The State of New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services has released a new hospital patient safety report, which shows data by hospital on the following patient safety issues:
- Foreign body left during procedure
- Iatrogenic pneumo thorax
- Post-operative hip fracture
- Post-operative hemorrhage or hematoma
- Post-operative pulmonary embolism (PE) or deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
- Post-operative sepsis
- Post-operative wound dehiscence
- Accidental puncture or laceration
- Transfusion reaction
- Birth Trauma
- Obstetric trauma – vaginal delivery without instrument
- Obstetric trauma – vaginal delivery with instrument
Related information: Patient Safety: Learn to Protect Yourself
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wound infections says:
March 10th, 2010 at 11:48 am
These kind of errors always makes me worry a lot