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Lower Quality Patient Care
Consumer attitudes toward healthcare quality are rapidly declining:
- Despite the fact that the United States spends more money per capita on medical care than any other industrialized nation in the world, it ranks in the bottom quartile of a list of 29 industrialized nations in both life expectancy and infant mortality.1
- Currently, the nation ranks 46th in life expectancy behind Japan, Singapore, Canada, and virtually all of Europe and Scandinavia.
- Additionally, 41 countries, including Cuba, have achieved lower rates of infant mortality.2
- Forty-five million Americans are uninsured and nearly 100,000 patient deaths occur each year due to hospital error.3
- The "Curing a Sick System" study also found that 41 percent of consumers believe the quality of healthcare in the U.S. compared to five years ago is getting worse.
- In addition, baby boomers are more pessimistic than any other age group.
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Notes:
1 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Found in: "U.S. Drops in Rank of Industrialized Nations for Infant Mortality, Life Expectancy," Doctor's Guide; Global Edition. www.pslgroup.com/dg/448d6.htm.
2 Geoffrey Cowley, "The Future of Medicine," Newsweek, Summer 2005.
3 "The Digital Hospital," BusinessWeek, March 28, 2005.
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