Breaking down the issues related to outpatient medical errors

Jan 13 2012

Minnesota Public Radio: Dr. Jon Hallberg: New Attention On Reducing Errors In Outpatient Procedures
The attention paid over the past decade to reducing medical errors in the hospital setting has reduced deaths, infections and injuries caused by other surgical and hospital errors - and now there's a call for similar attention on outpatient procedures (Crann and Hallberg, 1/10).

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.orgThis 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.

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