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Medicare Reverses Plan to Withhold Hospital Safety Data After AARP Pushback

By Andrew Soergel, August 04, 2022 04:33 PM

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week reversed course on a plan to withhold hospital safety data that is usually released publicly.

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In Surgery, Failing 'No Sponge Left Behind'

By Candy Sagon, December 21, 2012 11:05 AM

Here's a scary statistic: A surgeon in the U.S. leaves a foreign object, such as a sponge or towel, inside a patient's body after an operation 39 times a week.

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