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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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Good evening,
As the media relations contact for the Aon study referenced in your posting, thank you for sharing the analysis’ key finding with your readers
Please feel free to contact me directly if there are any questions, and thank you for your interest in the “2008 Hospital Professional Liability and Physician Liability Benchmark Analysis.”
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