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Safe Hospitals?
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FREQUENCY OF COMPLICATIONS IN HOSPITAL
There are roughly 2.2 million patients discharged from hospital a year in Canada. A national estimate of the average number
of Canadians who receive care or are exposed to a risk per adverse event:
1 in 9 adults with health problems reported being given the wrong medication or dosage by a doctor, hospital or pharmacist
in the past two years.
1in 9 adults contract an infection while in hospital, ranging from pneumonia to SARS.
1 in 9 patients receives the wrong medication, or the wrong dose.
1 in 16 reported an adverse event for themselves or a loved one in the past year.
1 in 81 babies born vaginally suffers trauma, emerging with injuries such as a broken shoulder.
1 in 20 women suffers severe tearing during childbirth.
1 in 299 patients receiving a blood transfusion will have a reaction.
1 in 152 deaths are associated with preventable adverse events for medical/surgical patients in acute care hospitals.
1 in 1,124 people over age 65 suffered in-hospital hip fractures.
1 in 6,667 had a foreign object left in their body after a surgical procedure.
1 in 72,046 got infected with hepatitis B from a blood transfusion.
1 in 10 million got infected with HIV from a blood transfusion.
SOURCE: CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INFORMATION
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