This "duty of candour" announced by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt requires hospitals to be honest with families when errors are made.
However, we actually know frighteningly little about how and when medical errors occur.
His first trial, last summer, came to a halt after a few days when prosecutorial errors forced the judge to declare a mistrial.
When database errors or poor performance occurs employees are waiting around.
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In fact, previous studies have indicated that when medical errors do occur, patients prefer to have physicians acknowledge them, and apologize as soon as they can.
When it comes to capital markets, investors often make several errors when thinking about domestic tax rate changes.
But the legislation itself contemplates confusion, as it spells out when a merchant is liable for errors and when a software vendor takes the blame.
Reconciling electronic charges is already time-consuming, even more so when there are errors.
And in the last decade, psychologists and economists have discovered that people make systematic errors when predicting their future satisfactions.
"He was very composed with no errors when he won his first cap although he didn't have many chances, " he said.
There is considerable debate about how many Americans would get caught up in database errors when they seek a new job.
He said the service made serious errors when deliberating the matter.
We made a lot of unforced errors when we were in possession, which you would expect to come out of our game the longer we are together.
But my 30-plus years working in the health care industry has taught me that people often make costly errors when signing up, especially while choosing among Medicare Advantage plans.
While featuring the same keyboard arrangement and operating style made popular by previous ClassPad calculators, the fx-CP400 is also fitted with keys that slope down from bottom to top, which helps prevent input errors when pressing vertically arranged keys.
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Because of their vast power, when Fed officials make errors, they harm not just a city or state or region.
Based on OHSU's own initial reviews and the original assessments by Cell, OHSU agrees that there were some minor errors made when preparing the figures for initial submission.
They take place each year because counties are fixing small tabulation errors made when adding up precinct totals on election night, as well as mistakes made in the reporting of those totals to the secretary of state's office.
One concern, however, was the form of Owen Farrell at fly-half, a position comparable to quarterback in the NFL. Farrell made a string of errors Saturday when passing and kicking from hand, and he also was involved in a scuffle with Barbarians hooker Schalk Brits.
This is a common practice employed by news organizations when a story contains factual errors.
The image transmission wasn't perfect and suffered defects because the Earth's atmosphere caused errors, even when the sky was clear, NASA said.
In addition, there was a reduction in the amount of DNA damage - errors that occur when a cell divides - seen in the three groups.
According to briefing documents available on the FDA's Web site, sound-alike and look-alike names are a common cause of medicine errors--when patients receive the wrong drug or the wrong dose.
And just as the flattered, puffed-up student gets a painful dose of reality after graduation, so the economy gets it when the never-liquidated errors finally bring about the inevitable crash.
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Times are somewhat grand in commodity-rich locales at present, but as has historically been the case, U.S. monetary authorities eventually wake up to their monetary errors, and when they do, the commodities priced in dollars will fall substantially, and with it, a lot of production that was made to appear viable by the illusion of a falling dollar.
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She said the only occasions she had changed times were when night staff had made obvious errors.
Errors happen not just when the wrong medicine is dispensed, but when the right medicine is taken at the wrong dosage.
In the healthcare industry, doctors display elevated behavior when they genuinely apologize for their errors rather than ducking behind legal defenses.
Almagro was serving and up 30-0 when he made a series of errors, including a double-fault that brought the score to three games apiece.
Moreover, an estimated 80% of serious medical errors involve miscommunication between caregivers when patients are transferred or handed off.
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