"Hospitals Make No Headway in Curbing Errors, Study Says" (front page, Nov. 25) details the tragic lack of compliance in the United States with best hospital practices.
Hospitals and doctors' offices, hoping to curb medical error, have invested heavily to put computers, smartphones and other devices into the hands of medical staff for instant access to patient data, drug information and case studies.
Analysts say that true management of care can curb the cost of errors and excess.
Public Works Director Bonnie Teaford agreed there was an wording error about where "bulb-outs" — curb extensions to improve safety for pedestrians — would be located, but maintained that the project application was not flawed and remained valid.
Our scorekeeper and street leader, Eric Philips, kept a loose-leaf binder on the curb filled with our batting averages, home runs, doubles, triples, errors.
David said he wondered how Buckner dealt with the ignominy of his error, which, of course, would be mined for "Curb's" comedic goals.
To a casual observer, it might have seemed that the makers of OxyContin, after years of obstructing efforts to curb the disastrous impacts of their painkiller, had finally seen the error of their ways.
Mr. Fleischer's words -- some of which were left out of the White House transcript, compounding the error -- suggested that the White House was seeking to curb criticism during the crisis, and he is still bruised by the incident.
Because of an editing error, an article in World Business yesterday about calls from the European Commission for Germany to curb its budget deficit misstated the surname of Ireland's finance minister, who expressed sympathy for the Germans' struggle.
