Half more patients are alive 2010 that would n't be if hospitals kept making the same number of mistakes they did in 2010 . A 2010 federal investigation had found that 40 % of the Health and Human Services Department patients had come to some kind of harm because of the care they received at the hospital . The biggest improvement came in the form of prescription drug errors , those were down 27 % .
An estimated 50,000 more patients are alive today that would n't be if hospitals kept making the same number of mistakes they did in 2010 . A 2010 federal investigation had found that 27 % of Medicare patients had come to some kind of harm because of the care they received at the hospital . The biggest improvement came in the form of prescription drug errors , those were down 40 % .