Healthcare Risk Management – June 1, 2002
June 1, 2002
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Disclosing another doctor’s error creates dilemma: Stay silent or speak the truth?
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A new approach to M&M means learning from errors
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M&M outline detail complications, questions
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Staff memo gets M&M message to wider audience
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Private security firms go undercover in your hospital
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Patient safety group works to reduce medical errors
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RNs file suit against Tenet for understaffing
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Assisted-living facility pays $1.5 million for hiring felon
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Most consumers support caps on pain and suffering
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Malpractice at heart of new proposal
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Legal Review & Commentary: Plastic surgery procedure ends in brain damage: $5.75 million settlement
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Legal Review & Commentary: No time for a wheelchair; an $85,000 verdict made
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Patient Safety Quarterly: Practice drills, careful job outlines improve emergency response
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Bioterrorism Watch: They don't call it bioterror for nothing: Fear is the foe when anthrax spores are found within hospital walls
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Bioterrorism Watch: APIC: Smallpox plan uses outdated infection control
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Bioterrorism Watch: Stanford sets the standard for bioterrorism planning