Problems in patient care linked to deaths

By Amy Corderoy
January 30 2013 - 3:00am
Surgery deaths ... in about 1 per cent of cases, the clinical problems were found to have probably caused the person's death.
Surgery deaths ... in about 1 per cent of cases, the clinical problems were found to have probably caused the person's death.

A QUARTER of all surgical patient deaths involve potential problems with care that could or should have been provided differently, a massive national audit has found.

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