Hospital officials said the fault was due to a technical issue and not medical error.
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Hospital officials have said the fault is due to a technical issue and not medical error.
Curious, Leape went to Harvard's vast medical library to see what had been written about preventing medical error.
One in 200 patients who spends a night or more in a hospital will die from medical error.
The big rise in hospital errors and infections has spurred Medicare to reconsider how it pays for services, potentially refusing to pay for procedures ordered as a result of medical error.
Worried that if they certified a hospital for being safe, an employee who was the victim of a medical error could sue them, the Roundtable decided to fund Leapfrog for a while but to sever any official affiliation.
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Leape is one of the top experts in patient safety and an author of the 1999 report from the Institute of Medicine that documented the depth of the medical-error problem.
Why wouldn't we want to put that on an electronic medical record that will reduce error rates, reduce our long-term cost of health care, and create jobs right now?
Lawmakers must turn the current medical malpractice system on its head, by establishing "blame free" error-reporting systems.
To figure out how to transform medical communities, with all their diversity and complexity, is going to involve trial and error.
The company said it apologized for the error some months ago and that an explanation was given to Fugh-Berman, the medical journal, the other author and AstraZeneca.
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