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errors
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Innovative approaches to malpractice, errors
American Medical News reporter Kevin O’Reilly writes about a presentation by David Mayer, M.D., University of Illinois at Chicago Institute…
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N.J. psychiatric hospital botches drugs, doses
Jean Mikle of the Asbury Park Press chronicled medication errors at Ancora Psychiatric Hospital, New Jersey’s largest such institution. Mikle…
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Study prompts hospital CEO to blog about change
A study led by Harvard researchers and published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that hospitals that used…
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Software glitch exposes VA patients to errors
As a result of software glitches, “Patients at VA health centers were given incorrect doses of drugs, had needed treatments…
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Quaid reaches settlement with hospital over errors
If you attended Health Journalism 2008 in March, you likely heard actor Dennis Quaid give an emotional talk about the…