At the American College of Healthcare Executives’ 57th Congress on Healthcare Leadership, Susan Dentzer, senior policy advisor at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, asked attendees to imagine a country with an economy about the size of France, with $2.8 trillion in gross product. In this country, life expectancy is below that of the world’s 28 richest countries. Eighty percent of adults are expected to be overweight or obese in six years. As people become ill, they are treated with “medical care,” but up to half of that care has no evidence behind it to suggest it works. And, one of the top 10 causes of death — and by some estimates, the top 3 — is due to adverse events that occur as patients receive medical care.
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