November 24, 2011
A stay of two hundred in hospital is related to an "adverse event associated with care." That is to say that it is the result of a treatment or diagnostic procedures performed in hospital, does not 'come to a natural progression of the disease. " Nine categories are listed, ranging from bedsores or "postoperative physiological and metabolic disorders" (the most common complications) to the "omission of a foreign body" in an operation (fortunately the rarest cases, although counted 644 in 2007), to infections, postoperative pulmonary embolism, "needle-stick injuries and lacerations," sepsis and obstetric trauma during childbirth.
This estimate was released Wednesday by the Institute for Research and Documentation in Health Economics (Irdes).Of course it raises a question of quality of care (from 5.3 to 7.1 adverse events "serious" occur for 1000 hospital days, showed a previous survey). But it also points a real financial issue: according to Irdes, "the total cost of ownership of these adverse events is estimated at 700 million" a year. Compared to 460 million deficit in public hospitals in 2010.
The average additional cost is 500 euros for birth trauma, often resulting in lighter and less than one additional day of hospitalization, and 20,000 euros for sepsis (18.5 days).
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