Nearly one-third of Medicare patients rehabilitating from surgery, stroke or some other injury suffer harm from something that happens during their hospital stay, according to a government report released Thursday.
About three in 10 Medicare patients who stayed in a rehab hospital experienced serious side effects from a change in medication, a pressure ulcer, an infection or some other injury that came about as a result of the care they were receiving.
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