Trump is laying waste to the agency that keeps hospital patients safe | Robert B Shpiner
Few have heard of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, but it has saved tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollarsWhen I started my training in 1980, we accepted an arithmetic that would now be indefensible. Central lines, the catheters we threaded into the great veins of the critically ill, became infected, and some of those patients died.
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Few have heard of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, but it has saved tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollarsWhen I started my training in 1980, we accepted an arithmetic that would now be indefensible. Central lines, the catheters we threaded into the great veins of the critically ill, became infected, and some of those patients died. We recorded the deaths as complications. Almost no one thought of them as preventable, because no one had yet done the slow work of proving they were.That work got done, and federal money paid for it.
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- Few have heard of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, but it has saved tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollarsWhen I started my training in 1980, we accepted an arithmetic that would now be indefensible. Central lines, the catheters we threaded into the great veins of the critically ill, became infected, and some of those patients died.
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Trump is laying waste to the agency that keeps hospital patients safe | Robert B Shpiner
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