In the past 20 years, the hospital nosocomial infection rate has risen 36 percent. Up to 180,000 Americans die in hospitals each year of treatment-related causes, and about half those deaths are preventable. Adverse drug reactions are thought to kill 100,000 patients a year in U.S. hospitals. In many metropolitan areas, as much as a fivefold variation in mortality risk for common surgical procedures exists among hospitals, Given our health system’s capabilities, the human cost of using it is unacceptably steep.
Source: The Heath Care Blog