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Survey from Aon Insurance Corporation
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According to a new analysis by insurance giant Aon Corporation, hospital-acquired conditions accounted for 12.2 percent of total legal-liability costs incurred by health care facilities in 2007.
Top Four Injury Claims
In addition, according to a brief about the Aon study in Modern Physician, one out of six claims against health care facilities was associated with hospital-acquired conditions, in 2007. Claims for these injuries were the most frequent of the four hospital-acquired condition categories:
- Infections
- injuries,
- pressure ulcers, and
- foreign objects left in the body after surgery.
Assessment
Costs of claims associated with pressure ulcers were the most expensive for health care facilities, which paid about $145,000 on average in claims for that condition. Aon analyzed nearly 78,000 claims with a total $9.3 billion of incurred losses for its professional liability report, which included information from more than 1,200 facilities that provided loss and exposure data.
Conclusion
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