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California hospitals report more than 1,500 “serious and preventable events”
Friday, January 8, 2010
Sacramento Business Journal: “They are sometimes called ‘never events’ because they are things that should never have happened,” Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access, a San Francisco-based consumer group, told reporter Kathy Robertson. “The fact there are so many of them and they are rising is a significant concern.”
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Tags: 98000 deaths, Medical negligence, patient safety;
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