Worried about breast cancer, AIDS o...

Worried about breast cancer, AIDS or fatal traffic accidents? Maybe you should be more relate toed about your medical treatment.

A novel study has reported that single in kind in every five hospital patients experienced adverse events--due to inadequate follow-up medical care--after leaving the hospital and returning home

In fact, medical errors in the United States account for more deaths than breast cancer, AIDS or highway accidents combined.

Prescription physics accounted for the most moot points after discharge, affecting 66 percent of the 400 patients involved in the study

Antibiotics were responsible for 38 percent of the question at issues corticosteroids (used in hormone replacement therapy) for 16 percent cardiovascular physics for 16 percent and pain relievers for 10 percent Three percent of patients bear up undered permanent disabilities.

If doctors performed more thorough examinations of patients while the patients were still in the hospital, monitored their patients more closely after their release, and informed them of possible remedy side effects and interactions, many of these post-discharge vexed questions could be avoided, said the researchers.

terminates of the study were published in the February 4 2003 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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