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Consultant Radiologist, Apologized For Misreporting Breast Cancer Scans

THE doctor, Amjad Husien, working at the Trafford General center apologized today for all the distress and suffering of his patients. // He was accused of misreporting the breast cancer scans, which led to twenty-two women being given the all-safe and fine decision. But now seventeen of those women are very serious because their treatment was delayed by up to two years. All this happene...

Better Reporting Leads to Rise in Madhya Pradesh AIDS Cases

The Madhya Pradesh government Tuesday ascribed the increase in the number of AIDS cases - from 953 in 2002 to 1,783 this year - to an increase in the number of HIV testing// centres. Replying to a calling attention motion by Congress legislators Sajjan Singh Verma and Govind Singh, on the alleged "misuse of funds" meant for controlling HIV/AIDS, Health Minister Ajay Vishnoi said: "The...

Increase In The Number Of Doctors Reporting About Their Colleagues Abilities

A General Medical Council survey suggests that half of doctors in hospital and general practice are being concerned about a colleague's abilities.// A first poll of 411 doctors found that 93% of those with worries had taken some form of action, such as talking to a senior colleague or employer. But 10% of GPs and 4% of hospital doctors had taken no action. It was also found that on e...

Voluntary Error-Reporting System Ensures Patient Safety

According to a study by the investigators at John Hopkins Children’s Center//, patient’s safety system can be improved by reporting as well as recording the medication errors into a computer database. Hopkins researchers said ‘Human error rates are minimized by identifying, fixing and reporting on the errors voluntarily plus steps taken to overcome it in the future’. Voluntar...

Inaccurate reporting of child physical abuse by healthcare staff

A research published in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing has indicated that 60% of healthcare professionals have examined//children whom they believe could have been physically abused , but as little as 48% actually conveyed it to the authorities.Less than three-quarters of doctors, dentists and community nurses were aware of the procedures of reporting child physical abuse, but 79...

All U.S. States To Begin Names-Based Reporting of HIV Cases by End of 2007

All U.S. states and Washington, D.C., by the end of 2007 will begin recording HIV cases using names-based reporting systems rather than code-based // reporting systems, the AP/Springfield State Journal Register reports. Beginning this fiscal year, the funding formulas used by HHS to calculate Ryan White Program grants include only HIV data from states that use names-based reporting sy...