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11 June 2008
Heart failure guidance ignored
15 April 2008
Create patient safety agenda, urges EC
22 February 2008
Media exaggerates intraoperative awareness rate
9 January 2008
Doctors reluctant to report colleagues
13 December 2007
Drug errors top US claims
3 December 2007
Study says doctors 'hasten death'
26 September 2007
Deaths from drug therapy more than double
29 August 2007
Surgical errors top claims
30 July 2007
China and India make WHO register
25 June 2007
WHO launches new rules to combat disease
14 May 2007
WHO proposes global healthcare reform
23 April 2007
Australia - Claims top $150 million
4 April 2007
Adverse events up 3%
12 March 2007
Australia - Proposed national register of doctors
1 February 2007
Europe - EU revises rules on children’s medicine
8 January 2007
US – Leaks main cause of death from bariatric surgery
12 December 2006
US - Marathon shifts increase medical errors
30 November 2006
Australia - Doctors face strict new laws
6 October 2006
US - Missed and delayed diagnoses result from multiple factors
9 August 2006
US - Long hours lead to needlesticks
7 July 2006
US - Patients are positive about openness
2 June 2006
US - Off-label prescribing in the community
28 April 2006
US - Proportionate response to wrong-site surgery
7 April 2006
Australia - After-hours ICU discharge increases mortality
7 April 2006
Australia - Adverse drug events common in general practice

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