Don't make terrible assumptions based on popular ideas of what is or isn't medically acceptable... 1 Medical Error in hospitals * Accounts for 251K deaths annually in the US. * 3rd leading cause of death * Higher in the U.S. than in other developed countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and the United Kingdom (U.K)
Phlebotomy error outside hospitals * Basic sanitary precautions are ignored * Rudimentary medical precautions ignored * Equipment is often outdated, incompatible, or contaminated
Error extends to evidentiary blood draws * The vast majority of phlebotomists have only 6 weeks of total training; some less - they don't recognize problems. * Many draws done in hospitals aren't even performed by hospital personnel * Non-hospital based phlebotomists have no ongoing clinical Quality Assurance process - zero.
-------------------------------------------- 1. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;234:13-17. Your Health Care May Kill You: Medical Errors.
