Needed: Process for prioritizing of patient safety 

Posted: 1:00 am Wed, August 26, 2009
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Which scenario sounds worse: A hospital patient falling and breaking a limb or doctors accidentally removing the wrong limb? The usual reaction is wrong-side surgery, said Ruth R. Faden, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, but since falls occur much more often and cause a much higher burden of disease, doctors might ...