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California health agency works with hospitals to reduce errors
There were 1,538 preventable medical errors reported at California hospitals last fiscal year, according to regulators...
Proposed bill would make medical mishaps by CT hospitals public
All medical mishaps reported by Connecticut hospitals would again be made public under legislation to be considered...
Catching deadly drug mistakes
Despite efforts to stop them, medication errors cause at least one death every day and injure approximately 1.3 million...
Is sorry the hardest word in healthcare?
An increasing number of leading medical centers are encouraging doctors to apologize to patients for mistakes and to...
Pitching patient safety and hospital transparency on YouTube
While some experts have warned that the full disclosure approach to medical errors could lead to more lawsuits and...
Within healthcare hides massive, avoidable death toll
Experts estimate that a staggering 98,000 people die from preventable medical errors each year. In addition, a federal...
AHRQ Spearheads Effort to Add Patient Voice to Error Reporting
A new project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality aims to utilize the patient's perspective more...
Joint Commission urges parents of hospitalized kids to be vigilant
In a bid to get parents to take a more active role in keeping their hosptialized kids safe, the Joint Commission is...
Hospitals in the Washington, DC, region tally their avoidable mistakes
There were hundreds of incidents of death or serious medical harm disclosed in the past year by hospitals in the...
Kansas Blue Cross won't reimburse for preventable errors
Hospitals reporting complications from preventable medical errors will no longer be reimbursed by Blue Cross and Blue...