If Tracked Accurately Medical Errors Would Be The 3rd Leading Cause of Death in U.S.

Change is hard. At some point in time everyone has had to try to change a habit in order to improve at something. That kind of change is hard because people get comfortable in their routines. That kind of change is difficult because people have to act deliberately to avoid slipping into their old habits. That kind of change is difficult because sometimes it begins to change the way people interact with other elements of their lives. It is that kind of change that researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine would like to see at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These researchers are calling on the CDC to add medical errors to its annual list of the top causes of death in the United States…