medical-errors

Dire predictions follow Pa. Supreme Court’s loosening of medical malpractice filing rules

BY: - October 20, 2022

(*This article was updated at 10:32 a.m., Thursday, 10/20/2022, to correct a spelling error and add the effective date of the rule change.) Echoes of a debate more than two decades old are ringing out in the Pennsylvania Capitol over the rights of patients to sue for medical malpractice and the effects of such litigation […]

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Medical Errors: A cause of death that needs more attention | Opinion

BY: - March 14, 2021

The concepts of improvement and prevention, especially against the leading causes of death, are a focus of Patient Safety Awareness Week which is March 14-20.