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medical errors
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Will Biden follow his experts’ advice for reducing medical errors?
Takeaways for journalists from the White House advisory committee’s recommendations to improve patient safety.
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‘Medical errors are the third leading cause of death’ and other statistics you should question
Too often, we journalists set aside our critical reasoning skills when it comes to alarming statistics about patient safety.
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Journalists share tips for weighing hospital rankings #ahcj13
Can every hospital really be better than every other hospital at everything? Hospital public relations folks and the people who…
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Experts push for improvement in avoiding medical errors #ahcj13
Lisa Kenney knows all too well the grave danger posed by medical errors. While undergoing surgery in 1999, a medical…
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Campaign wants some immunity for docs who apologize
According to my mother, it sometimes isn’t enough to just say you’re sorry. In The Kansas City Star, Alan Bavley…
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Spotlight on health care quality, measures
The April issue of Health Affairs focuses on the quality of health care in the United States. Some highlights of…
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Allen looks at present, future of Nev. transparency
Writing for the Las Vegas Sun, reporter Marshall Allen put a fitting cap on an award-winning investigative run at the…
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Las Vegas Sun’s Allen a finalist for Goldsmith Prize
AHCJ member Marshall Allen, with Alex Richards, is a finalist for the 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their…
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Las Vegas Sun caps series by showing solutions
In the Las Vegas Sun reporter Marshall Allen wraps up his wide-ranging Do No Harm series on hospital quality by…
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Report projects 134,000 hospital patients a month experience adverse events
More than 13 percent of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were harmed during a hospital stay, according to a study released by…