QSEN Questions with correct answers

QSEN Questions with correct answers QSEN - In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its landmark report, To Err Is Human, which stated that between 44,000 and 98,000 people die each year in US hospitals due to medical errors. That is more than the number of people who die in a given year from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDs. In fact, every day-and-a-half, a fully-loaded Boeing 747 airplane3 would have to fall from the sky before airline passenger loss of life would surpass hospital patient loss of life.4 QSEN - A study from 2000 showed that during one year, as many as 18,000 patients in Australia died from medical errors and more than 50,000 patients were disabled.5 Also in 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that each year nearly 2 million patients in the United States get an infection while being treated for another illness or injury, and nearly 88,000 die as a direct or indirect result of this infection — adding nearly $5 billion to health