美醫療失誤每月殺死萬五病人

醫療失誤每月殺死萬五病人
Medical mistakes kill 15,000 patients every month
Saturday, November 20, 2010
by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
translation by Autumnson Blog

(NaturalNews) Your local hospital just might be more of a death trap than an actual health care facility. A new report issued by the Office of Inspector General at the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) says that every month roughly 134,000 hospital patients experience some type of adverse event during their stays. And about 15,000 of them die every month due to various medical and surgical errors.
（NaturalNews）你的本地醫院也許衹是死亡陷阱多於一實際的醫療設施，一份由健康與人類服務部（HHS）的監察長辦公室發出的新報告說，每個月粗畧有 134,000醫院病人在他們的住宿期經歷某類型的不良事件，及他們中每月約有 15,000人死於多種醫療和手術失誤。
According to the report, such adverse events include surgery mistakes, medication dosage errors, improper care protocols, and transmission of infection due to filthy conditions. In fact, patients are often admitted to hospitals in healthier condition than when they leave (if they even do), and much of the time their health declines are a result of avoidable medical errors.
根據報告，這些不良事件包括手術失誤、用藥劑量錯誤、不當護理草案和感染傳輸由於骯髒的環境。事實上，患者往往以較佳的健康狀況送入醫院，比起他們離開的時候（如果他們有得離開），和大部分時間他們的健康衰退是可避免的醫療錯失導致的。
Many hospitals are also hotbeds of infectious diseases like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the infamous hospital "superbug" that kills roughly 48,000 people every year (http://www.naturalnews.com/028441_superbugs_infections.html).

Nearly 50 percent of all adverse event problems are avoidable, according to the report. But since there is no tracking system in place to address the problems and work towards fixing them, many hospitals continue to make them without consequence -- and the vast majority of hospital patients have no idea about the significant risks they face.

"This report shows that hospital patients are being harmed by medical errors at an alarming rate," explained Lisa McGiffert from Consumers Union, in a statement. "Unfortunately, most Americans have no way of knowing whether their hospital is doing a good job preventing medical errors."

At this time, there is no solid way to determine where hospitals rank in terms of overall safety performance because no reporting system exists for tracking this information. But the report urges both the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to work towards implementing one.

Sources for this story include:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AF5SM20101116

http://www.naturalnews.com/030460_medical_msitakes_patients.html