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Human Performance Technology Group is an independent organization that has been diligently pursuing one mission since its dawn – to improve patient safety and quality in the delivery of health care.
Human Performance Technology Group was established as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) to coordinate integrating data collection on medical errors and adverse events, coordinate research and analysis efforts, deliver Human Factors Training and promote collaboration on reducing the occurrence of injuries that result from medical errors. |
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In the United States medical error is estimated to result in 44,000 to 98,000 unnecessary deaths and 1,000,000 excess injuries each year. One older extrapolation suggests 180,000 people die each year partly as a result of iatrogenic injury, the equivalent of three jumbo-jet crashes every 2 days. It is estimated that in a typical 100 to 300 bed hospital in the United States, excess costs of $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 attributable to prolonged stays and complications just due to medication errors occur yearly.
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| Medical care is frequently compared adversely to aviation, in that, while many of the factors which lead to error are similar, aviation's error management protocols are much more effective. Human Performance Technology Group brings these management protocols to the forefront of health care systems through its partners in saftey. |
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