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The Quality Gap: Medicine’s Secret Killer

What is the most costly element of America’s trillion-dollar healthcare system? Surprisingly, experts believe it is the medical quality gap and medical errors, which they estimate take more than 90,000 lives each year. In this program, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines New York’s tough performance reports on doctors and hospitals doing open-heart surgery; profiles a pioneering effort by a VA hospital in Kentucky to confront medical errors; and shows breakthrough quality improvement drives in northern New England and Utah. Each case study is an eye-opener for an American public that rates high-quality care as its number one health priority. (49 minutes)

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Item#: BVL10943
Copyright date: ©2000
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-8252-4

Part of the Series : Critical Condition with Hedrick Smith: How Good Is Your Health Care?


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