Legislation to upgrade Washington's medical-error reporting program will be introduced in January in response to a seattlepi.com story that showed problems with the current system, a prominent state lawmaker says.
medical errorLawmaker: State's medical-error reporting needs upgradeSeattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness Tue, 09/28/2010 - 22:18
Health care reform does little to end medical errorsSeattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness Sun, 10/18/2009 - 21:58
Health care legislation now before Congress takes only modest steps to address a problem that is far more deadly than inadequate medical insurance : medical error. Dead by Mistake: State law on reporting medical errors lacks bot...Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness Sun, 08/09/2009 - 21:49
Six years after the "To Err is Human" report, the Washington state Legislature responded with a law mandating medical error reports. Reporting has been a trickle, at best. |
