For the fourth year in a row Maryland hospitals saw an increase in medical errors that led to patient deaths or serious disabilities.
In 2023, the most recent year of collected data, the Maryland Department of Health found there were 808 patient deaths or disabilities due to medical errors.
The number is nearly four times the number of error-related deaths from 2019, when the state recorded 212.
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