Hong Kong to launch training to cut medical blunders
20-Jun-16, South China Morning Post
New initiatives to bring down the number of medical blunders in public hospitals are in the pipeline as the Hospital Authority identified some 30 types of mistakes most commonly made by medical professionals.
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Authority chairman Professor John Leong Chi-yan said that regular forums targeting these errors would soon be organised for junior doctors.
They would target the most common cases including surgical tools being left inside patients’ bodies, the wrong dose of medicine being prescribed and operations on the wrong side of a patient, he said.