Consumer Reports' safety experts give their best advice
Published: November 2014
Hospitals are dangerous places: 440,000 Americans each year are estimated to die after experiencing medical errors in hospitals. That’s 10 times the number of people who die in car crashes annually. It’s more than two jumbo jets crashing every day. And it’s nearing the number of people who die from heart disease or cancer. “Yet many of the deaths go unnoticed except by devastated families,” says Lisa McGiffert, director of Consumer Reports’ Safe Patient Project.
