Hospitals backtrack on keeping mistakes secret
Seattle Times, November 6, 2007
The Washington State Hospital Association will no longer try to block the release of information about errors such as leaving instruments inside patients and performing the wrong operations. The association had previously argued that the information was "not that useful" and put too much blame on certain hospitals.
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