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What Are the Main Types of Healthcare Incidents?

MedTrainer

The key to a good incident report is completeness and accuracy, and that means documenting as much information as possible. Healthcare incidents can encompass a wide range of events that compromise patient and staff safety or quality of care. billion in malpractice costs and almost 2,000 preventable deaths. There were 45.9

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Health Provider News – February 10, 2023

Hall Render

over Claims Practices Where things stand in Central California 1 month after a community hospital’s closure California hospital names Kelly Linden CEO Upcoming California health bills to watch, including a conversation with Rep.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

They’re experienced at what they do and aren’t intimidated by plaintiffs’ counsel and their threats of malpractice claims if they don’t testify the way plaintiffs want them to. procedure that existed at the time of [plaintiff’s] injury”; malpractice was “intervening cause”) (applying Kansas law); Eck v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc. ,

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

Drug & Device Law

Apparently, a fraudulent foreign-trained “doctor” treated the plaintiffs, none of whom claimed malpractice or any physical injury whatsoever. Anyway, this fraudulent “doctor” allegedly “touched them without informed consent” and caused them “emotional distress. 23 in its current form. 3d , 2022 WL 1592444, at *4 (E.D.

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