Patient Safety: Treatment Errors Could Cost Billions of Euros
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AOK-Bundesverband: Berlin (ots) - The Medical Service Federation (MD Bund) has today presented its annual treatment error statistics. Dr. Carola Reimann, Chairman of the Executive Board of the AOK-Bundesverband, confirms on this occasion the demands of the AOK ...
The number of confirmed treatment errors in Germany remains high: Almost 100 patients died in 2025, according to the medical service. Experts also assume that there is a significant dark figure.
The medical services in Rheinland-Pfalz registered 178 treatment errors in patients last year. 521 suspected cases were examined by the evaluators. Thus, treatment errors were detected in every third ad. Health damage in orthopaedics and accident surgery was most frequently caused by these incidents. However, the assessment figures showed only a very small part of the actual error, explained Jürgen Koehler, Chairman of the Rheinland-Pfalz Medica…
Last year the Bavarian Medical Service examined 1780 allegations of maltreatment, 608 were confirmed. In 451 cases there was a health damage. What can a person do?
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The medical service puts the possible consequential costs of avoidable damage in the health care system at around 31 billion euros. However, the extrapolation is controversial.
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