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Effects of Poor Communication in Healthcare
Dec 23, 2023
Exploring the effects of poor communication in health care, this HIPAA Journal article cites data from CRICO’s med mal database. “Medical safety experts at CRICO Strategies [now Candello] investigated 23,000 medical malpractice lawsuits and found more than 7,000 of those lawsuits could be attributed to communication failures. Those communication failures resulted in $1.7 billion in malpractice costs and almost 2,000 preventable deaths,” reported HIPAA Journal.
Full-text Citation
Adler S. Effects of poor communication in healthcare. December 23, 2023. HIPAA Journal.
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