12 hours ago Annual Report The Connecticut Department of Public Health recently released its 2016 Adverse Event Report and sadly, there were only small changes from the prior year. In fact, while a few events were reduced, there were thirteen wrong site surgeries, one wrong surgical procedure performed on a patient and even one wrong patient surgery. >> Go To The Portal
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