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Stephen C Schimpff's Blog – December 2010 Archive (3)
Hospitals are Unsafe - There Are Still Plenty of Preventable Medical Errors
Over the past ten years and since the publication of the Institute of Medicine landmark book “To Err Is Human” there have been many attempts to reduce preventable medical errors which are estimated to take about 100,000 lives per year – perhaps many more. The question is whether all of this effort has had a substantial clinical impact.
The results of a recently published study are therefore concerning. A…
ContinueAdded by Stephen C Schimpff on December 14, 2010 at 11:54am — No Comments
Two Treatments For Macular Degeneration – At Wildly Divergent Costs
Neovascular AMD appears to be related, at lease in part, to excess production of vascular endothelial growth factor… Continue
Added by Stephen C Schimpff on December 8, 2010 at 2:25pm — No Comments
Replacing the Aortic Valve Without Open Surgery!
Added by Stephen C Schimpff on December 1, 2010 at 10:50am — No Comments
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