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Too Many “Oops!” for Older Hospitalized Patients
“Could it have been prevented?”, the concerned family member asks , and, in way too many instances, the answer is “yes!” A report from the Department of Health and Human Services reports that 14% of hospitalized Medicare patients suffered harms deemed “clearly or…
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