Noted: “Even with these small numbers that are showing up, we know that these actually shouldn?t be occurring if the proper procedures and protocols were put into place,” said Barbara Rudolph, a researcher for the University of Wisconsin?s Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis and the Leapfrog Group, a think tank dedicated to reducing medical error. “Some of the research that?s been published recently shows that there?s potentially 10 times more of these events occurring than is currently being reported.”
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