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Article: New Jersey lawmakers approve bill to tighten rules on reporting mistakes.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- March 15, 2004
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2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The New Jersey Senate approved a bill in February 2004 that would require doctors and other healthcare professionals to report medical errors involving patients.
No such disclosure is now required by the state and the legislation has become known as the Patient Safety Act. Legislators said actions called for in the bill possibly could have stopped a nurse who claimed to have killed up to 40 patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Each hospital would have to create a review board to look at medical mistakes and come up with solutions to reduce such errors. Lawmakers said the act also would require New Jersey ...