The study, surveying hospital reports from Oct. 7, 2008 to Oct. 6, 2009, identified 301 adverse events compared with 312 the year before, a decrease of 3.5 percent.
Four patients died from these events, a lower number than in any previous year.
Read the Minnesota Department of Health’s report on adverse events (pdf).
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