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• Erik Walerius, Chief Supply Chain Officer, University of Wash- ington Medicine, Seattle John Gaida, Chairman, Bellwether League Inc. Board of Directors, welcomed the newest Future Famer class. “While we have spent the last almost nine years selecting and honoring Bellwethers who are at or near the sunset of their successful careers, we take great pride in recognizing these individuals at the early stages of their pursuit of healthcare supply chain excellence,” he said. “Their ac- complishments are varied, but they represent what is best to come of our future,” Gaida continued. “Just like Bellwethers, each brings a different set of accomplishments for not only themselves, but their employers and our organization as well. We are proud to honor them and wish them all the best as they strive to build upon these accomplishments and achieve others.” The newest Future Famers will be recognized during the 9th An-
nual Bellwether Induction Dinner, Monday, October 3, at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare, in Rosemont, IL, near Chicago.
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Study suggests medical errors now third leading cause of death in the U.S. Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S. Their figure, published in The BMJ, surpasses the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) third leading cause of death — respiratory disease, which kills close to 150,000 people per year. The Johns Hopkins team says the CDC’s way of collecting na-
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tional health statistics fails to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate. The researchers are advocating for updated criteria for classifying deaths on death certificates. “Incidence rates for deaths directly attributable to medical care
gone awry haven’t been recognized in any standardized method for collecting national statistics,” says Martin Makary, M.D., M.P.H., professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an authority on health reform. “The medical coding system was designed to maximize billing for physician services, not to collect national health statistics, as it is currently being used.” In 1949, Makary says, the U.S. adopted an international form that
used International Classification of Diseases (ICD) billing codes to tally causes of death. The researchers say that since that time, national mortality sta-
tistics have been tabulated using billing codes, which don’t have a built-in way to recognize incidence rates of mortality due to medical care gone wrong. According to the CDC, in 2013, 611,105 people died of heart disease, 584,881 died of cancer and 149,205 died of chronic respira- tory disease — the top three causes of death in the U.S. The newly calculated figure for medical errors puts this cause of death behind cancer but ahead of respiratory disease. “Top-ranked causes of death as reported by the CDC inform
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our country’s research funding and public health priorities,” says Makary. “Right now, cancer and heart disease get a ton of atten- tion, but since medical errors don’t appear on the list, the problem doesn’t get the funding and attention it deserves.” The researchers caution that most medical errors aren’t due to inherently bad doctors, and that reporting these errors shouldn’t be addressed by punishment or legal action. Rather, they say, most errors represent systemic problems, including poorly coordinated care, fragmented insurance networks, the absence or underuse of safety nets, and other protocols, in addition to unwarranted varia- tion in physician practice patterns that lack accountability. “Unwarranted variation is endemic in healthcare. Developing consensus protocols that streamline the delivery of medicine and reduce variability can improve quality and lower costs in health- care. More research on preventing medical errors from occurring is needed to address the problem,” says Makary. HPN
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