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A ‘Persistence of Patient Harm’: Hospital Failures Highlight Need for Home-Based Care Investments

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Additionally, physician-reviewers determined that 43% of the harm events could have been prevented if patients had been provided better care. A similar OIG effort in 2010 found that 27% of hospitalized Medicare patients experienced harm during stays in October 2008, with nearly half of those events preventable.