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patient safety
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Journalists intensify coverage of the harms of private equity
Critical coverage of private equity firms — which buy companies and restructure their operations in order to quickly sell them…
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FDA warns that breast implants are not “lifetime devices”: Tips for covering this story
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced last week a series of steps meant to address long-standing concerns about breast…
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Where have all the patient safety activists gone? … Answer: They’re still around, just a bit quieter
Today, Sept. 17, is the first World Patient Safety Day, declared by the World Health Organization to draw attention to…
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Conference among many efforts to reduce diagnostic errors
Every nine minutes, someone in a U.S. hospital dies due to a medical diagnosis that was wrong or delayed. This…
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Moore Foundation awards $500,000-plus grant to AHCJ
The Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, the educational arm of the Association of Health Care Journalists, has been…
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Weaving data, human stories into compelling series on dental deaths
In early 2014, a 4-year-old Dallas boy named Salomon Barahona Jr. died after undergoing sedation for a dental procedure. The…
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Investigation highlights spotty regulation of fatal dental errors nationwide
In a recent seven-part series for the Dallas Morning News, investigative reporter Brooks Egerton explores dental treatments that have ended tragically…
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IOM spotlights diagnostic errors, continues call to improve patient safety
Efforts to improve health care quality and safety are mostly missing one significant source of concern: diagnostic errors, according to…
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Surgeons’ complication rates become public with new database
Whether consumers are choosing a car, a household appliance or even a nursing home, there are ratings and reviews available…
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Report reveals the challenges behind covering patient safety
Patient safety is a critically important topic for health care journalists. Yet collecting the data needed to report on it…