Showing posts with label preventable errors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preventable errors. Show all posts

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Exposure of Dialysis Care in the United States

Recently, a dedicated and passionate investigative reporter released a series of articles focusing on dialysis facilities and the care, or lack thereof, that patients received. Here are the links:

http://www.propublica.org/article/editors-note-how-we-got-the-governments-secret-dialysis-data

http://www.propublica.org/article/in-dialysis-life-saving-care-at-great-risk-and-cost

http://www.propublica.org/article/dialysis-pr-leak-the-plan-to-spin-our-investigation

http://www.propublica.org/article/when-needles-dislodge-dialysis-can-turn-deadly

(We have posted to our website - www.qualitysafepatientcare.com - the dialysis facility surveys (inspection reports) for California for 2009 and 2010