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2004 SESSION
HB 521 Medical errors; reporting.
Introduced by: Dwight Clinton Jones | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Reporting of medical errors. Requires, as a condition of licensure, that each licensed hospital report medical errors committed by physicians, medical and nursing students, nurses, and other health care providers who are granted privileges to practice at the hospital. Each hospital must establish a procedure to identify, classify, and report medical errors. Also, hospitals are required to report this information under the patient level data system reporting requirements.
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HISTORY
- 01/14/04 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/13/04 044217364
- 01/14/04 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/20/04 House: Stricken from docket by H. W. I. (22-Y 0-N)