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No push for national medical-errors database
San Francisco Chronicle, August 24, 2009
While the White House acknowledges that hospital medical errors are a "a big and serious problem," a senior administration official says President Obama does not favor a mandatory reporting system for all medical mistakes, just for infections acquired in hospitals. While car accidents, airplane crashes, and workplace injuries are regularly tallied, there is no national system for tracking deaths from medical care.
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