Background:   The Institute of Medicine estimates that there are 44,000-98,000 preventable deaths per year.  However, there is a paucity of literature regarding preventable death rates, despite its importance as a quality measure.  Methods:   All deaths in the general medicine service from 2010-2012 at an academic hospital underwent an independent retrospective chart review by [...]

Background: Since the 1999 IOM report To Err is Humanhighlighted that up to 98,000 preventable deaths occur annually in U.S. hospitals, efforts have intensified to understand and eliminate preventable mortality. At our institution, we developed an in-person, near real-time, multidisciplinary mortality review to capture the insight of frontline providers and improve care. In the analysis presented [...]