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By Susan Carr
In a page-one story on Sun., June 21, The New York Times
reported that significant errors persisted for more than six years at a
brachytherapy program at the Veterans’ Medical Center in Philadelphia
despite investigation. The Times reports that Dr. Gary D. Kao
implanted radioactive seeds incorrectly on repeated occasions as he
treated patients with prostate cancer.
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Susan Carr In this first posting to the PSQH blog, I invite readers to contribute suggestions and essays to what I expect to be a lively forum of news and ideas about safety and quality improvement. When we launched PSQH in late 2004, we wanted the magazine to provide more than a one-way transmission of information, and now the Internet offers some of the best vehicles for that kind of exchange. |
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Susan Carr For comic inspiration and musical bravura in the HIT space, nothing beats Dr. Ross D. Martin’s Interoperetta in Three Acts, an appreciation of HITSP, CCHIT, AHIC and more. |
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 ABQAURP News Thursday, 14 May 2009 May / June 2009Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) —What They Mean for You According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),... Read more...
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