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Cancer Kids See More Medical Errors ...
Kids with cancer are great fighters but according to researchers this fight is been hampered by the number who receive chemotherapy doses in addition to being treated at the wrong times
In the practice of medicine, the lack of standards is often to blame for
this. It continues to baffle me that there is not a centralized way to create,
store and retrieve medical records regardless of physician (many still use
paper records and files), so in all honesty, I guess a lack of standards
as a cause here is not that surprising.
But, when kids are involved, one would think the care needed to ensure smooth
patient handling would be a top priority. Aren't there checklists and specific
operating procedures for these kinds of things? Sure there are, and in many cases,
the competence of doctors or drug administration officials is not in question
at all.
Sometimes, he said' the hard questions had to be asked-- and especially when the lives of children are at stake.'
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