Mar 18 2011
KQED's Health Dialogues: Medical Mistakes
Are California hospitals reporting medical mistakes and infections accurately — or at all? State officials estimate that thousands of Californians die each year from medical mistakes and patient infections, and that these infections are largely avoidable. ... Health Dialogues [explores] efforts to reduce these risks, and take a look at what officials and consumers can do to safeguard against medical mistakes (Varney, Whaler and Shafer 3/17).
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente. |