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First do no harm.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-JUL-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: First do no harm.(Editorials)(Hospital quality reporting helps to reduce errors)(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
Byline: The Register-Guard

A quiet reformation is taking hold in American health care that has the potential to reduce medical errors and improve the quality of patient care. If it is embraced with courage and candor throughout the health care system, it could address the malpractice insurance crisis in ways that would make damage award caps seem quaint.

Momentum has been building since a seminal 1999 Institute of Medicine report concluded that tens of thousands of Americans die each year from preventable medical errors, and hundreds of thousands suffer or barely escape from nonfatal injuries.

A flurry...

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