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surgical errors
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Disclosure of hospital infections still in its infancy
On Forbes.com, Gergana Koleva evaluated the woeful state of national hospital-associated infection reporting, with the help of recently published research.…
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Fla. hospitals make little progress on error reduction
South Florida Sun Sentinel reporters Sally Kestin and Bob LaMendola report that, despite the myriad initiatives and protocols launched in…
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“Never events” still happen sometimes
Photo by Garrett P. via Flickr MedPage Today’s Crystal Phend drew two key lessons from a recent paper on the…
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Reporters encounter hospital’s lack of transparency
Blythe Bernhard and Jeremy Kohler of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch investigated a string of serious mistakes at a local hospital…
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Hearst project looks at toll of medical mistakes
A team of reporters from Hearst news organizations across the country contributed to “Dead by Mistake,” a broad investigation into…
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Philly VA botched 92 of 116 cancer treatments
Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times uncovered an astounding series of regulatory and oversight errors that allowed a “rogue”…