After MJD picked up the medications at the pharmacy, and reviewed the list, an antibiotic was absent. Finally, medical commentary is not to be construed in any way as medical advice. https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-health/australias-health-2018/contents/indicators-of-australias-health/adverse-events-treated-in-hospital. Somewhat analogously, nosocomial infections (ICD-10 code, Y95) are often coassigned with a pathogen or type of infection when responsible for a death, and, because Y95 does not end up as the single underlying cause on such death certificates, they are not classified in the GBD study as AEMT. Even when no medical errors are responsible for the choices made. That is not what it is saying. What I think Lawrence means is that for the numbers just don’t add up. Did I claim smoking pot cures rheumatoid arthritis? Those numbers just don’t make sense. So you come full circle where most people being harmed by medicine do not even realize it, and where most people complaining about their medical care will have imagined things they barely understand in the first place. -btw- from the torrents of articles being dumped, I imagine that lost income must be at least 900K per annum. It doesn’t mean that doctors will allow patients to smoke joints in the psych ward. But I do wish they would take a closer look at the harms of folic acid added to food when there is a non-toxic, safe at any dose, prescription medication (Deplin – (6s)-5-methyltetrahydofolic acid) folate that could be added instead. Mara Gordon ... saying that "the criminalization of medical errors could have a chilling effect" on health care workers' willingness to report errors. If you are a potential patient and found this page through a Google search, please check out Dr. Gorski's biographical information, disclaimers regarding his writings, and notice to patients here. All women of reproductive age should get 400 micrograms (mcg) of folic acid each day, in addition to consuming food with folate from a varied diet. The incidence of ALT elevations >3 x ULN was 30% in patients taking both concomitant valproate and clobazam, 21% if taking concomitant valproate (without clobazam), 4% if taking concomitant clobazam (without valproate), and 3% in patients taking neither drug; consider discontinuation or dose adjustment of valproate or clobazam if liver enzyme elevations occur, https://reference.medscape.com/drug/epidiolex-cannabidiol-1000225. https://youtu.be/0n_Ty_72Qds. It is becomeing more clear with each of your posts. Ahh; forgive me JustaTech. So I totally agree the human error part would be less but the “abnormal reactions” might be higher. In Canada, medical errors account for 28,000 deaths yearly, according to the Canadian Patient Safety Institute which campaigns to reduce that number. Each show includes a section on “health and healing” where the woo-meister recites studies showing how foods and supplements cure various ills- well really, the studies say no such things- more along the lines that people who eat more fruits and vegetables may have less cancer- but he distorts them to fit his own schtick, selling supplements and powdered fruits and vegetables. Second, it used rigorous methodology to identify deaths that were primarily due to AEMTs. Who could keep track? The NHS makes hundreds of millions of prescribing errors and mix-ups which contribute to as many as 22,300 deaths a year, according to a major … Patient 1 will benefit while patient 2 may suffer. Methods for GBD 2016 have been reported in full elsewhere. Sources of data included VR and VA data; cancer registries; surveillance data for maternal mortality, injuries, and child death; census and survey data for maternal mortality and injuries; and police records for interpersonal violence and transport injuries. Medicine should be medicine, not food. Finally, the authors analyzed the cause-of-death chains for all deaths from 1980 to 2014 to determine how frequently AEMT was (1) anywhere within a death certificate’s cause-of-death chain (ie, not underlying cause) and (2) which other contributing causes were most frequently found in the causal chain when AEMT was certified as the underlying cause. Isn’t that the data of reported medical errors? In a garden of respectful insolence, is it possible to smell the AI-for-medicine roses. a category (3) event? Thiamine is available as a prescription and as a supplement with insanely high DV amounts to treat or prevent Wernicke’s Encephalopathy, particulary in alchoholics. Based on your name, Tim, I’m going to assume that you are a man, and therefore will never suffer the horror of finding out that the fetus you are carrying has no brain. No biases in the reporting of medical errors? Indeed it is provably unfit to every environment and every conceivable environment. Lots of those ‘drugs’ seem to just be folate. It’s also in line with my assertions that one major issue with previous studies is that the unspoken underlying assumption behind them is that that if a patient had an AEMT during his hospital course it was the AEMT that killed him. Most of this increase was due to population growth and aging, as demonstrated by a 21.4% decrease (95% UI, 1.3%-32.2%) in the national age-standardized AEMT mortality rate over the same period, from 1.46 (95% UI, 1.09-1.76) deaths per 100 000 population in 1990 to 1.15 (95% UI, 1.00-1.60) deaths per 100 000 population in 2016 (Figure 1A). They’re large and chocolate and something else and very popular. Second of all, notice that for all age ranges save one, how small a fraction of the total AEMTs were deemed to have been due to misadventure representing probable medical error. The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him). "A statement of fact cannot be insolent." “Inhibiting bone resorbtion” is a remedy for osteoporosis. Exactly! Yet, as Mark Hoofnagle points out in the Twitter thread above, the estimates for “death by medicine” keep increasing. Medical errors refer to preventable events resulting from healthcare interactions, whether these events harm the patient or not. — Mark Hoofnagle (@MarkHoofnagle) February 1, 2019. A study published last month suggests that it’s almost certainly a lot lower and has been modestly decreasing since 1990. You have nothing to contribute. Each death was categorized as resulting from a single underlying cause. (I happen to think that it is, even if it might have somewhat underestimated AEMTs.) Each death was categorized as resulting from a single underlying cause. We’re looking at a number of deaths due to AEMT that’s 50- to nearly 80-fold smaller than the numbers in the Hopkins study. of course the medical field is going to say that to protect their profits. But take it from me, health services devote enormous amounts of their time, money and resources to reduce the chance of incidents occurring. Furthermore, medical record reviews demonstrate that diagnostic errors account for 6–17% of all harmful events in hospitals (19). Adverse events related to medical or surgical devices and other AEMT were nearly absent in the 1990s but have been responsible for a stable proportion of overall AEMT since the switch to ICD-10 coding of death certificates. The very culture of the health sector is being changed to try and reduce adverse incidents. Finally, the authors analyzed the cause-of-death chains for all deaths from 1980 to 2014 to determine how frequently AEMT was (1) anywhere within a death certificate’s cause-of-death chain (ie, not underlying cause) and (2) which other contributing causes were most frequently found in the causal chain when AEMT was certified as the underlying cause. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”. Many reasons. First, they found 123,603 deaths (95% UI, 100,856-163,814 deaths) in which AEMT was determined to be the underlying cause of death. Medical Staff. My only hospital experience is a a patient and as a family-member of a patient. Not exactly what it was asked to do. Error rates are significantly higher in the U.S. than in other developed countries such as Canada, Australia, … Food or food ingredients may be a carrier for medicine (syrups and alcohol) but I don’t eat a handful of ibuprophen because I’m hungry. As with the more gen… @F68.10 What I am trying to say is that cannabis as a drug would have known side effects. There was an uproar, and many pundits dismissed it out of hand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_in_healthcare#Current_Research. O.K. I might be a woman; I’ve used the alias Mitzi Dupree but I’ve never been unknowingly pregnant so I’ve not personally been touched by the horrors of neural tube defects. That basically means any adverse event, whether it was due to a medical error or not. By John Palmer. Why is that? I knew that 250k number was wrong. It is often someone else’s job to report errors. Yes, Arthur Allen, a writer I’ve admired since his book Vaccine, casually included that factoid in his story. out of the University of Washington and is entitled “Association of Adverse Effects of Medical Treatment With Mortality in the United States: A Secondary Analysis of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study“. They are PROS at that. Mark was referring to the use of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Global Trigger Tool, which is arguably way too sensitive. Such as radiographies or medical records fed to some neural network. After years of scholarly effort I have finally absolutely and undeniably proved that evolution is false! They went from 100,000 to 200,000 and now as high as 400,000. They often involve a cascade of omissions that never get acknowledged, much less counted. Maybe you do surgeries without making a prior diagnosis where you live. You don’t put amoxicillin in a cake, you don’t put progesterone in a soda. Nonetheless, ORAC, get ready to bone up on how to refute all the coming ‘studies to show’. Why is it that when something is shown to be ‘medicinal’ This poor man has obvious issues but Polly just eggs him on and exploits him. In addition, it is probable that a significant number of deaths involving AEMT are not captured because of incomplete reporting. Likewise, if you train artificial intelligence on medical records, you pick up all the biases that are in the records: if the records on which AI is trained do not mention medical errors for whatever biases there may be, this bias will ultimately be picked up by the neural network. How did we get here? Renate, he doesn’t care about the answer to his question, unless the answer is “Buy his book on AI.”. Medical errors in hospitals and clinics result in approximately 100,000 people dying each year. Disgusting. Sir, you are free to not make use of any medical system in any country. There are also issues with GBD methodology that might not accurately capture every AEMT: …the GBD study’s cause classification system that assigns each death to only a single underlying cause means that some events associated with AEMT may be grouped elsewhere. They’re devoid of meaning. Major events causing death are actually rare, and they are a very big deal – police involved, coroners court, TV coverage big. I must admit that when I first read that, for some reason I had a brain fart in which I thought the authors were saying that they had found 123,603 deaths per year due to AEMT. (Because biology is so amazingly complex.). Then we’ll all be sorry. Medical errors is one of them. So what’s the difference between this study and studies like the Hopkins study and the studies upon which the Hopkins study was based? you should, cup cakes like ORAC lead to serious disease. He has books he wants to sell. You do not need medical errors for iatrogenic harm to occur: it’s a price to pay to care for those who will benefit from medical care. When not exclusively measured as the underlying cause of death, AEMT appeared in the cause-of-death chain in 2.7% of all deaths from 1980 to 2014, which corresponds to AEMT being a contributing cause for an additional 20 deaths for each death when it is the underlying cause. I’m too close to sleep. Logic does not come easy. If this dire trend continues it won’t be long before 3 out of every 2 deaths will be due to medical error. As the authors put it: In the secondary analysis, in which AEMT was listed as the underlying cause of death, 8.9% were due to adverse drug events, 63.6% to surgical and perioperative adverse events, 8.5% to misadventure, 14% to adverse events associated with medical management, 4.5% to adverse events associated with medical or surgical devices, and 0.5% to other AEMT (eTable 6 in the Supplement). What a difference.”. Or dead. Yet, as Mark Hoofnagle points out in the Twitter thread above, the estimates for “death by medicine” keep increasing. Roughly 12,000,000 Americans are misdiagnosed each year. I agree that it a patient’s journey through the health care system can be extremely complicated, and yes there have been coverups and incompetence and maliciousness in health systems. Isn’t that like the AI that was supposed to figure out the difference between pictures of dogs and pictures of cats? Did you look at the charts? Like, do more people who come in with snake bites or serious infections have more adverse events than people who come in from traffic accidents? What distinguished Allen, though, is that he went back and corrected his article. Then, you have to preheat the oven…. Finally some common sense in that “debate”. With my very limited knowledge of medicine, I’m not sure if AI will have very much effect. Does that mean there’s no problem? It’s an amazing program. There are also issues with GBD methodology that might not accurately capture every AEMT: …the GBD study’s cause classification system that assigns each death to only a single underlying cause means that some events associated with AEMT may be grouped elsewhere. Medical records often contain incorrect information that can lead to inappropriate medical treatment. Sir, you are free to not make use of any medical system in any country. DON”T. We should do better. Of course, The US will stand in the way; It all started over textiles,anyways, when DuPont patented how to make shit out of oil. Discuss strategies that can be employed to help reduce medication errors… I can think of one prescription ‘medication’ that is also put into food, though: Thiamine. In Kuwait, there is a paucity literature detailing the causes, forms, and risks of medical errors in their state-funded healthcare facilities. No. But some of us spend a little time to expose damaging altie beliefs as well. For instance, über-quack Gary Null teamed with Carolyn Dean, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio, and Dorothy Smith to write a paper “Death by Medicine,” which estimated that the total number of iatrogenic deaths is nearly 800,000 a year, which would be the number one cause of death, if true and nearly one-third of all deaths in the US. Perhaps he should try to write books that are worth to buy. The biggest problem with AI will likely be “overfitting”. Dr. Gorski's full information can be found here, along with information for patients. I would assume that the aforementioned CBD will also be acceptable as a ‘mood stabilizer’ since that is what people used it for before it was designated anti-seizure. When last I discussed this issue three years ago, specifically a rather poor study out of The Johns Hopkins that estimated that 250,000 to 400,000 deaths per year are due to medical errors, I pointed out how these figures are vastly inflated and don’t even make any sense on the surface. Basically, when it comes to these estimates, it seems as though everyone is in a race to see who can blame the most deaths on medical errors. Actually, practicing physicians are constantly involved in quality assurance efforts to decrease preventable errors. But of course, this life-saving threatments are not fail safe. This database is described thusly in the paper: The 2016 GBD study is a multinational collaborative project with an aim of providing regular and consistent estimates of health loss worldwide. So I’m not saying that there aren’t biases (conscious and unconscious) but that a lot of effort goes into reporting fully and accurately. It’s just that the sector is so bloody big, with so many clinicians and patients. Medication errors can occur at any time between when a clinician prescribes a medication and a patient receives the drug. We can do better. The way the FDA is structured, anything deemed of medicinal value is locked up behind (sometimes insurmountable) prescription walls and not allowed to be consumed no matter how safe it is. If it’s medicine, why would it make sense that “CBD would be treated like bonbons”? That surgeon is otherwise known as David Gorski. @Narad: nowadays, AI seem to refer more and more to technologies based on neural networks. It will do the same when analyzing your medical records in 20 years: extracting predicting information that the medical doctor is not trained to see. A remedy for a longstanding problem seemed in sight. But unless you are an elderly Dutchman with dementia, there’s no evidence that folic acid has any negative effects. Mortality associated with AEMT as either an underlying or contributing cause appeared in 2.8% of all deaths. Also, as I explained in my deconstruction of the Johns Hopkins paper, the authors conflated unavoidable complications with medical errors, didn’t consider very well whether the deaths were potentially preventable, and extrapolated from small numbers. As part of that Twitter exchange, Mark pointed me to a recent publication that suggests how. https://www.cannalawblog.com/the-world-health-organization-steps-up-on-cannabis/. I’ve been harshly silly. It doesn’t mean that doctors will allow patients to smoke joints in the psych ward. Here’s the rest of the primary findings of the study: The absolute number of deaths in which AEMT was the underlying cause increased from 4180 (95% UI, 3087-4993) in 1990 to 5180 (95% UI, 4469-7436) in 2016. complications and not someone doing something that they shouldn’t. DEPLIN® is a prescription medical food for use only under the supervision of a physician. Certainly not a “holistic” MD: he cannot substantiate a claim of being able to keep track. Errors are said to … Orac: Death by Medicine estimates “the total number of iatrogenic deaths is nearly 800,000 a year”, Believe it or not, TODAY, the hoary old woo-meister ( ” JImmy Wales and Wikipedia……” new article at prn.fm) has increased the figure to… They went from 100,000 to 200,000 and now as high as 400,000. . Folic acid fortification SAVES LIVES so you can just go stuff it. We have shared records only within each health region and there are 15 regions in NSW. Indeed, I was co-director of a statewide QI effort for breast cancer patients for three years. I see that and recognize that is to be avoided like so much sodium. The reality is, People are not buying this BULLSHIT any longer. This is about bones and looks like a side effect, like osteoporosis. News Articles On Medical Errors 2019. Let’s look at the author’s primary results. So, if the estimates between 200,000 and 400,000 are way too high, what is the real number of deaths that can be attributed to medical error? Just when I thought things couldn’t get any dumber…. The first cut AI predicted that persons with heart disease were less likely to die from Pneumonia. Obviously, the goal is for more patients to benefit than to be harmed. As for biological vs mechanical, my guess (and it’s only a guess) would be that you have more chance of having a human error in mechanical simply because you have more people doing more “things” to you. Or needs surgeries you’ll never be able to afford. Let’s unpack this a minute. Your research might be enhanced by viewing the organism’s eponymous you tube channel which feature 911 Truth, the Jimmy Dore Show and Dr Sherry Tenpenny. We’re not there yet. And what is an adverse event associated with medical management if not a medical error, i.e. Let’s look at the author’s primary results. A living example of what I’ve coined “unextendible simplicity”. As the authors put it: In the secondary analysis, in which AEMT was listed as the underlying cause of death, 8.9% were due to adverse drug events, 63.6% to surgical and perioperative adverse events, 8.5% to misadventure, 14% to adverse events associated with medical management, 4.5% to adverse events associated with medical or surgical devices, and 0.5% to other AEMT (eTable 6 in the Supplement). Applying AI to medical care means first and foremost having the highest quality data available, and be aware of all the biases in the data. And half a percent of hospital admissions is not a small number when you think about it. Plausible underlying causes of death were assigned to each ill-defined or implausible cause of death according to proportions derived in 1 of 3 ways: (1) published literature or expert opinion, (2) regression models, and (3) initial proportions observed among targets. Here’s the rest of the primary findings of the study: The absolute number of deaths in which AEMT was the underlying cause increased from 4180 (95% UI, 3087-4993) in 1990 to 5180 (95% UI, 4469-7436) in 2016. The second one because they realized the first diagnosis was wrong. I think that (4) ” adverse events associated with medical management” is most likely to be things like patients falling out of bed and injuring themselves (a serious problem). Serious, cautious and nuanced accounting is more needed than throwing numbers. The only guy in my program who actually got a degree (out of about two dozen) was doing radiotherapeutic targeting, now that I think back. https://www.forbes.com/sites/javierhasse/2019/02/13/european-parliament-passes-cannabis-resolution-joins-who-in-supporting-medical-marijuana/. I must admit that when I first read that, for some reason I had a brain fart in which I thought the authors were saying that they had found 123,603 deaths per year due to AEMT. Schadenfreude. For that to be true, one-third to one-half of all hospital deaths would have to be due to medical errors. I was more thinking that people are more likely to have an unexpected reaction to antibiotics or snake antivenom than they are to sutures and X-rays. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Steven P. Novella, MD – Founder and Executive Editor, David H. Gorski, MD, PhD – Managing Editor, Association of Adverse Effects of Medical Treatment With Mortality in the United States: A Secondary Analysis of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study, surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, American College of Surgeons Committee on Cancer Liaison Physician. This organism is so simple that it is prey to every predator since it cannot shelter or feed itself. That said the system spends enormous amounts of time and money and human effort identifing and investigating the causes of adverse patient outcomes. 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