Monday, May 5, 2008

Docs and Hospitals Protest Some ‘Never Events’

Should “never events” really never happen? Eliminating some mishaps that should never happen is a laudable goal, but just isn’t possible 100% of the time, some inside the medical establishment say.
Last year, Medicare said it would stop paying to treat a bunch of hospital problems that included bed sores, certain catheter-associated infections and leaving objects [...]

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