Report projects 134,000 hospital patients a month experience adverse events
More than 13 percent of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were harmed during a hospital stay, according to a study released by the HHS Office of the Inspector General (PDF, 81 pages). The report is...
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Las Vegas Sun caps series by showing solutions
In the Las Vegas Sun reporter Marshall Allen wraps up his wide-ranging Do No Harm series on hospital quality by showing how Nevada hospitals could be approaching medical errors differently. His focus...
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Las Vegas Sun’s Allen a finalist for Goldsmith Prize
AHCJ member Marshall Allen, with Alex Richards, is a finalist for the 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their two-year investigation into preventable infections and injuries in Las...
View ArticleAllen looks at present, future of Nev. transparency
Writing for the Las Vegas Sun, reporter Marshall Allen put a fitting cap on an award-winning investigative run at the paper with a story rounding up the state’s first steps toward transparency in...
View ArticleSpotlight on health care quality, measures
The April issue of Health Affairs focuses on the quality of health care in the United States. Some highlights of the issue, which was sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: analysis and...
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Campaign wants some immunity for docs who apologize
According to my mother, it sometimes isn’t enough to just say you’re sorry. In The Kansas City Star, Alan Bavley writes that, apparently, some physicians disagree. In particular, an organization called...
View ArticleExperts push for improvement in avoiding medical errors #ahcj13
Lisa Kenney knows all too well the grave danger posed by medical errors. While undergoing surgery in 1999, a medical error caused anesthetic to be injected into her bloodstream, rather than into the...
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Journalists share tips for weighing hospital rankings #ahcj13
Photo by Pia ChristensenMarshall Allen, standing, was joined by his ProPublica colleague for a workshop about hospital rankings. Can every hospital really be better than every other hospital at...
View ArticleReport projects 134,000 hospital patients a month experience adverse events
More than 13 percent of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were harmed during a hospital stay, according to a study released by the HHS Office of the Inspector General (PDF, 81 pages). The report is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Las Vegas Sun caps series by showing solutions
In the Las Vegas Sun reporter Marshall Allen wraps up his wide-ranging Do No Harm series on hospital quality by showing how Nevada hospitals could be approaching medical errors differently. His focus...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Las Vegas Sun’s Allen a finalist for Goldsmith Prize
AHCJ member Marshall Allen, with Alex Richards, is a finalist for the 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their two-year investigation into preventable infections and injuries in Las...
View ArticleAllen looks at present, future of Nev. transparency
Writing for the Las Vegas Sun, reporter Marshall Allen put a fitting cap on an award-winning investigative run at the paper with a story rounding up the state’s first steps toward transparency in...
View ArticleSpotlight on health care quality, measures
The April issue of Health Affairs focuses on the quality of health care in the United States. Some highlights of the issue, which was sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: analysis and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Campaign wants some immunity for docs who apologize
According to my mother, it sometimes isn’t enough to just say you’re sorry. In The Kansas City Star, Alan Bavley writes that, apparently, some physicians disagree. In particular, an organization called...
View ArticleExperts push for improvement in avoiding medical errors #ahcj13
Lisa Kenney knows all too well the grave danger posed by medical errors. While undergoing surgery in 1999, a medical error caused anesthetic to be injected into her bloodstream, rather than into the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Journalists share tips for weighing hospital rankings #ahcj13
Photo by Pia ChristensenMarshall Allen, standing, was joined by his ProPublica colleague for a workshop about hospital rankings. Can every hospital really be better than every other hospital at...
View ArticleReport projects 134,000 hospital patients a month experience adverse events
More than 13 percent of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were harmed during a hospital stay, according to a study released by the HHS Office of the Inspector General (PDF, 81 pages). The report is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Las Vegas Sun caps series by showing solutions
In the Las Vegas Sun reporter Marshall Allen wraps up his wide-ranging Do No Harm series on hospital quality by showing how Nevada hospitals could be approaching medical errors differently. His focus...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Las Vegas Sun’s Allen a finalist for Goldsmith Prize
AHCJ member Marshall Allen, with Alex Richards, is a finalist for the 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their two-year investigation into preventable infections and injuries in Las...
View ArticleAllen looks at present, future of Nev. transparency
Writing for the Las Vegas Sun, reporter Marshall Allen put a fitting cap on an award-winning investigative run at the paper with a story rounding up the state’s first steps toward transparency in...
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