WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Patients in the United States reported higher rates of medical errors and more disorganized doctor visits and out-of-pocket costs than people in Canada, Britain and three other developed countries, according to a survey released on Thursday.
Thirty-four percent of U.S. patients received wrong medication, improper treatment or incorrect or delayed test results during the last two years, the Commonwealth Fund found.
Thirty percent of Canadian patients reported similar medical errors, followed by 27 percent of those in Australia, 25 percent in New Zealand, 23 percent in Germany and 22 percent in Britain, the health care foundation said.
"Driven up by relatively high medication and lab or test errors, at 34 percent, the spread between the United States and the countries with the lowest error rates was wide," Cathy Schoen, senior vice president of Commonwealth Fund, wrote in the journal Health Affairs, which published the study on its Web site.
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Недавно видел передачу про Китай. Там вообще 80% населения не имеют доступ к медицине и что? Посмотрите на карту. А Северная Корея? Что при таком режиме и такой бедности они оказывается до 69 лет живут. А Куба так ваще. Так что эта карта ничего не доказывает.
Сам процесс учёбы на врача практически отсеивает непргодных, а уж сама работа (постоянный контакт с НЕЗДОРОВЫМИ людьми) ...
