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Overhaul of medical safety needed. A new report finds the nation's health care system is a decade or more behind other high-risk industries in its attention to ensuring basic safety. The report released by the independent Institute of Medicine, finds that medical errors kill as many as 98,000 in U.S. hospitals each year. More people die from medical mistakes each year than from highway accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. While errors may be more easily detected in hospitals, the study says they afflict every health care setting: day-surgery, outpatient clinics, retail pharmacies, nursing homes, and home care. Deaths from medication errors that take place both in and out of hospitals number more than 7,000 annually, exceeding those from workplace injuries.
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