Medical Errors Costing U.S. Billions-HealthDay

Medical Errors Costing U.S. Billions- HealthDay: "TUESDAY, April 8 (HealthDay News) -- From 2004 through 2006, patient safety errors resulted in 238,337 potentially preventable deaths of U.S. Medicare patients and cost the Medicare program $8.8 billion, according to the fifth annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study."