Unintentional but Serious Errors in Hospital Care for Newborns

Posted on February 6th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Remember the case of the Quaid twins and the heparin mistake? You`d think it was an unfortunate but isolated incident, right? Something that normally doesn`t happen in hospitals in the developed world. Well, think again.
A study in France whose [...]

 

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Tags: healthcare errors, iatrogenic events, newborns, unintentional
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