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1)Read the list and article below and post a Discussion Response on your feelings about the implications of significant need for health organizations to improve their outcomes

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1)Read the list and article below and post a Discussion Response on your feelings about the implications of significant need for health organizations to improve their outcomes.

2. Post a Discussion Response about how your approach might need to flex to successfully work with a wide variety of healthcare professionals and situations.

The word doc is for the first question and the excel file is for question 2.

If 99.9% Were Good Enough, then... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year. 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next 60 minutes 1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunication services every minute. 12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day. 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly this year. 2,488,200 books will be shipped in the next 12 months with the wrong cover. 5,517,200 cases of soft drinks produced in the next 12 months will be flatter than a bad tire. Two plane landings daily at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago will be unsafe. 3,065 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections. 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled in the next hour. 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly this year. 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect card holder information on their magnetic strips. $9,690 will be spent today, tomorrow, next Thursday, and every day in the future on defective, often unsafe sporting equipment. 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written in the next 12 months. 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped this year. $761,900 will be spent in the next 12 months on tapes and CDs that won't play. 107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today. 315 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language will turn out to be misspelled. In Hospital Deaths from Medical Errors at 195,000 per Year USA Main Category: Medical Malpractice / Litigation News Article Date: 09 Aug 2004 An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, inhospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records that was released today by HealthGrades, the healthcare quality company. The HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals study is the first to look at the mortality and economic impact of medical errors and injuries that occurred during Medicare hospital admissions nationwide from 2000 to 2002. The HealthGrades study applied the mortality and economic impact models developed by Dr. Chunliu Zhan and Dr. Marlene R. Miller in a research study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in October of 2003. The Zhan and Miller study supported the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 1999 report conclusion, which found that medical errors caused up to 98,000 deaths annually and should be considered a national epidemic. The HealthGrades study finds nearly double the number of deaths from medical errors found by the 1999 IOM report "To Err is Human," with an associated cost of more than $6 billion per year. Whereas the IOM study extrapolated national findings based on data from three states, and the Zhan and Miller study looked at 7.5 million patient records from 28 states over one year, HealthGrades looked at three years of Medicare data in all 50 states and D.C. This Medicare population represented approximately 45 percent of all hospital admissions (excluding obstetric patients) in the U.S. from 2000 to 2002. "The HealthGrades study shows that the IOM report may have underestimated the number of deaths due to medical errors, and, moreover, that there is little evidence that patient safety has improved in the last five years," said Dr. Samantha Collier, HealthGrades' vice president of medical affairs. "The equivalent of 390 jumbo jets full of people are dying each year due to likely preventable, in-hospital medical errors, making this one of the leading killers in the U.S." http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=11856 Post a Discussion Response about how your approach might need to flex to successfully work with a wide variety of healthcare professionals and situations. 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