It's the same nonsense that has people claiming that "medical errors" are the leading cause of death in the US Very silly
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Part of the issue with the study is how incredibly diverse the descriptions of "potentially preventable" patient harm are, but in general it's defined a bit like this (from the study)pic.twitter.com/k8ZVY7OuMW
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For example, if someone gets a legionella infection because a hospital hasn't cleaned their air conditioning units, that is an incident of potentially preventable harm
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If people keep tripping over the slick floors on the ward, that's potentially preventable harm You get the idea
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One of the included studies from this systematic review looked at measures that could be taken to prevent the patient harm Do these sound like "mistakes" to you?pic.twitter.com/kHpbSqD6vj
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At best, you can argue about half of these are directly related to medical "mistakes", and even then it's often a bit more complex than thatpic.twitter.com/qZXIc1sYMw
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Some of the issues that this study identified were definitely mistakes Many of them were systems failings, which aren't attributable to a single person at all
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Also, the fact that you can make a modification to prevent something doesn't mean that it was preventable AT THE TIME
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