The Big Picture: Effects of Lack of Reliable Quality Control in Hospitals In search of the “Black Box” for a reliable and cost-effective quality control of the delivery of medical care - 2/2006 by Gil N. Mileikowsky, M.D.  read article SBA Testimony "American solution-the black box" watch video or read exceprt Lumetra Report Recommends Our "Black Box" Concept read excerpts Powerpoint presentation From 2006 SSI Meeting  view presentation "To Err is Human, Repeating the Same Error Can be Fatal" Presentation From 2009 ACLM Meeting  view presentation WHO ranking of countries' health care performance  view rankings The Economic Impact of Lack of Quality Controls. Medical errors translate into $750 billion to $1.75 trillion wiped out of the US economy - article originally from fastcures.org and diagram modified from "In Search of the Black Box" by Dr. Mileikowsky (see item #1 above) Download PDF File Safety, Efficiency and Flexibility – Convergent or Mutually Exclusive Goals in Healthcare Design Presentation by Paul Barach, MD, MPH - Clalit Seminar, October 1 2013 - View Presentation Slides Organizations "supposed" to monitor hospital's quality of delivery of care Download PDF File Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and Subsidiaries (JCAHO) History and Financial Statements How Peer Review Failed at Redding Medical Center, Why It Is Failing Across the Country and What Can Be Done About It Submitted to the U.S. Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care by Gerald N. Rogan, M.D., Frank Sebat, M.D., and Ian Grady, M.D., September 22, 2008 Read Report Read Press Release Across USA, anxiety over access to patient records USA Today 4/29/2008, by Robert Davis Read Article GAO Report (July 2004) - CMS Needs Additional Authority to Adequately Oversee Patient Safety in Hospitals The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) regularly missed serious problems and put patients at risk, according to this GAO study. Download PDF File Deadly errors and politics betray a hospital's promise LA Times Pulitzer Prize Winning Series on King/Drew County Hospital - December 5, 2004 Read LA Times Series Read LA Jewish Journal Article U.S. Department of Justice Recovers Fraud from HCA and Tenet Read More From NewYorker.com: The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing - Why one physician took the risk of becoming an F.B.I. informant to expose alleged Medicare fraud. Read More Patient Safety in American Hospitals July 2004 HealthGrades Study documents evidence that nearly 600,000 patients die of medical errors in hospitals every three years. Download PDF File To Err Is Human — And Costly: Addressing The Potential Effects On Litigation Of So-Called "Never Events" - Health Lawyers Weekly, December 19, 2008 Read Article Medical Errors Still Claiming Many Lives - USA Today 5/18/2005 Article quotes Harvards Lucian Leape as saying, “We have to turn the heat up on the hospitals." Summarizes 5/18/05 JAMA article by Professor Leape. Read USA Today and JAMA Articles See Why Pay for Mistakes - Boston Globe - 8/23/2007 Many docs have kept quiet on errors, incompetence: study from Modern Physician Online - Story posted: December 3, 2007 Read Article OVERTREATED: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer selected by New York Times Business Columnist, David Leonhardt as the No 1 Book of the Year. Read More The First National Report Card on Quality of Health Care in America. 2006 Rand Corporation report finding that all adults in the United States are at risk for receiving poor health care, no matter where they live; why, where, and from whom they seek care; or what their race, gender, or financial status is. Read Document Internal Bleeding The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes by Robert Wachter, M.D. and Kaveh G. Shojania, M.D. Read More Nutrition Institute of America Study concludes 784,000 people die annually due to medical mistakes. Study is based on 152 published peer review articles. Read Abstract View Summary Tables Read Full Study Critical Condition: How Health Care in American Became Big Business and Bad Medicine, by Donald L. Bartlett & James B. Steele, excerpts regarding number of deaths caused by medical error, between 225,000 and 257,000 per year. Download PDF File Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much by Maggie Mahar Read More from Amazon.com Read More from HealthBeat Blog Who Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem-and the Consumer-Driven Cure by Regina Herzlinger, Professor, Harvard Business School Read More Letters to elected officials urging Congress to extend "whistleblower" protection to all physicians Read More Fatal Medical Errors Said to Be More Widespread By Paul Davies, The Wall Street Journal - Jul 27, 2004 Read Abstract How to Keep the Hospital From Making You Sicker Wall Street Journal 9/11/2003 Download PDF File "Unhealthy Diagnosis" - Exposes Unnecessary Heart Surgeries at Tenet Facility in Redding, CA CBSNews.com Article #1 and Article #2 JCAHO Patients' Safety Standards - Transcript of Presentation by JCAHO President, Dennis O'Leary, MD, concludes that there is no incentive for CEOs to achieve higher quality of care as it would reduce revenues for hospitals - 11/24/2002 Download Transcript in PDF Format Rape of the Medical Peer Review Process by TENET Health System by Gil N. Mileikowsky, M.D. 11/24/2002 Download Transcript in PDF Format Transcript of Quarterly Meeting of Medical Board of California - 11/9/2002 Download Transcript in PDF Format "Clinical Peer Review or Competitive Hatchet Job." Examines how Peer-Review is used as a tool to eliminate economic competitors. by William W. Parmley, M.D., M.A.C.C. Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 36, No. 7, 2000. Download Article in PDF Format HB 2371 - Patient safety bill passed Pennsylvania State House but died in Senate Download Article in PDF Format