Published in Physician Business Week, September 18th, 2007
National attention is being focused on "never events" -- serious and costly errors in the provision of health care services that should never happen. Events that cause serious injury or death to patients, such as surgery on the wrong body part or mismatched blood transfusions, can result in inflated costs to treat the consequences of the error. In an effort to...
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