According to the most recent federal numbers, motor vehicle crashes are the number one cause of death for children 10 and 11 years old, and for young adults ages 16 through 23.
In August the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – the federal agency whose mission includes preventing fatal car crashes – published its “Traffic Safety Facts” for 2016. This is the latest in the agency’s annual look at serious motor vehicle accidents in the United States.
According to the NHTSA, nearly 37,500 people were killed in a motor vehicle crash in 2016; that’s 102 people every ...
September is Sepsis Awareness Month. Sepsis is a blood infection that can be fatal. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 250,000 Americans die each year from sepsis.
More alarming, sepsis is a highly preventable infection.
Sepsis is commonly caused by bacteria, as well as certain viruses. The elderly and the young are most susceptible to the blood infection. Other persons at risk for developing sepsis include those undergoing cancer treatments, those with severe burns or injuries, and those with other infections, such as pneumonia.
Signs of Sepsis
Common ...
It’s common-sense speculation that reckless truck drivers are the most likely to cause accidents. There is new evidence to back up this assumption.
Truck Driver Crash Predictor
The American Transportation Research Institute is a nonprofit organization that conducts transportation-related research. It has a tool called the Crash Predictor Model that projects the chances which truck drivers will be involved in crashes based on their driving behaviors. Earlier this summer the ATRI updated this research and announced its new findings as to which truck drivers are most likely to ...
What causes medical errors to be made in hospital emergency rooms? Most likely bad decisions by doctors, according to recent new research.
Medical errors have been estimated the third leading cause of death in the United States. There are a wide range of serious medical mistakes made every day, including wrong site surgery, hospital-acquired infections, and medication errors.
Wrong Emergency Room Diagnosis
A hospital emergency room offers unique challenges to medical care providers. In this setting, how doctors process information can be key. A wrong diagnosis in the emergency ...
An aging truck driver population and a boom in online shopping may be setting the stage for a rise in fatal truck accidents now and in the years ahead.
Both of these factors have created a big need for truck drivers. According to the American Trucking Associations – the industry’s leading lobbying group – there is a now shortage of some 63,000 truck drivers. That gap is projected to widen to 174,000 truckers in eight years.
The median age of truck drivers today is 49. More truckers are retiring or finding other work than there are new drivers replacing them. The need for additional truck ...
It’s estimated that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. But what causes medical mistakes that harm patients? One major contributor that may be overlooked is physician burnout.
The Stanford University School of Medicine in July published the findings of its study on the role that doctor burnout and fatigue played in causing medical errors. (“Physician Burnout, Well-being, and Work Unit Safety Grades in Relationship to Reported Medical Errors”)
Researchers surveyed nearly 6,700 U.S. physicians. The makeup of the physicians mirrored the ...
We’re well past the halfway point in the summer vacation session for most Missouri schools. Soon enough busloads of students will be on the road again in the early morning and late afternoon.
Thankfully, school bus transportation is a relatively safe mode of travel. But a recent investigation of two fatal school bus crashes warns of negligent actions that can lead to such tragedies anywhere and anytime.
In May, the National Transportation Safety Board released the findings of its investigation into two school bus crashes; one in Baltimore, Md. and the other in Chattanooga, Tenn. A ...
Children are continuing to be harmed in hospitals by events that should rarely take place but for a preventable mistake.
An adverse event is patient harm created by an error during medical care. Examples of preventable medical mistakes that can lead to serious, even fatal adverse events for hospital patients include hospital-acquired infections, surgical errors, and medication errors.
While hospital patients of any age should not be subjected to serious medical errors, the consequences suffered by younger patients from mistakes in care oftentimes are severe. Yet a recent study ...
Each day, one out of every 25 hospital patients in the United States suffers a catastrophic infection. As a result, 90,000 patients die each year from a hospital-acquired infection.
These are the findings from the Leapfrog Group, which in June published a report on hospital-acquired infections (Healthcare-Associated Infections). The Leapfrog Group is a not-for-profit organization focused on improving the safety of healthcare in this country. One of the more notable Leapfrog efforts is to each year issue a safety grade for hospitals across the United States. The frequency of ...
Missouri has been given an “F” for safety, with a big portion of this failing grade due to dangerous driving habits.
The National Safety Council is a not-for-profit agency that promotes safety to prevent deaths in the workplace, in the home, and on our nation’s roads. It recently published its “The State of Safety” report for 2018. It measured safety issues for those three areas – workplace, home and road – issuing category grades for each state in the nation.
Fatal Car Accidents in Missouri
The Show-Me State was shown an F for road safety, ranking 49th out of our 50 states ...
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