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		<title>Having A Medical Test?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Numerous mistakes are made all along the way once the primary care doctor orders a test, according to a new survey of eight family medicine practices. The wrong test is ordered; the test is incorrectly administered; incomplete results are conveyed to the doctor; and the results are not reported to the patient.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1170&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assessing Physician Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that seven years have passed since the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report on the epidemic of medical mistakes plaguing U.S. hospitals, experts continue to decry the lack of substantial progress in reducing substandard doctor performance. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1022&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital Errors Still Out of Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day patients spend in a hospital bed. They risk harm from at least one preventable medication error. This disturbing finding is cited in a recent report on medication errors undertaken by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) at the behest of Congress. While many such errors cause only minor problems, a significant number result in permanent injury or death.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1148&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Maryann</media:title>
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		<title>Empty Promises</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Failure of the New York State Health Department to Monitor Medical Errors / New York State’s Failure to Adequately Protect Patients<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=106&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Prevalent are Medical Errors?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been two and one-half years since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued its groundbreaking report on medical errors. Having been part of the IOM effort, I had high hopes that it would finally force the health care system to confront the crisis in patient safety with a sense of urgency. But as the months go by, I become less and less convinced that a sufficient number of doctors and hospitals are committed to doing whatever is necessary to stem the tide of death due to medical mistakes. Instead, some have chosen to focus on debunking the IOM's calculations as unscientific and grossly exaggerated, thus denying the problem exists rather than fixing it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=813&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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