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hospital errors
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UK hospitals fail to comply with safety alerts
Following medical errors and patient safety issues, the United Kingdom’s National Patient Safety Agency issues national safety alerts so that…
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Hospital infections on rise in Nev., reporters find
Part two of Marshall Allen and Alex Richards’ Las Vegas Sun hospital investigation series “Do No Harm” takes on hospital-acquired…
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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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Quaid releases documentary about medical errors
Those of you who attended Health Journalism 2008 may remember actor Dennis Quaid’s appearance at the event, telling the harrowing…
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Tracking medical errors amid health tech push
Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz are still hot on the trail of health information technology at the Huffington Post Investigative…
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Report details errors in waiting-room death
The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Tom Avril reports on how hospital errors led to the death of a 63-year-old north Philadelphia guidance…
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Network to warn pharmacists of drug errors
The Wall Street Journal‘s Laura Landro spotlighted a new national network designed to send e-mail alerts to as many as…
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Getting patients home safely after a hospital stay
New America Media‘s Paul Kleyman explores the effects of hospitals cutting corners when it comes to patient transitions from hospital…
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AHRQ interviews Ornstein, talks medical errors
Robert Wachter, M.D., (bio), editor of AHRQ WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality), interviewed AHCJ President Charles Ornstein, of ProPublica, for a…
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Feds take Columbia to task over decade-old study
The run of intriguing health journalism from the Huffington Post Investigative Fund continues this week, as Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon…