The Union Leader writes that a state lawmaker us filing legislation that would require New Hampshire hospitals to report preventable medical errors — also called “never events” — to the state and consumers to reduce the number of people who are injured or die because of them, based on a successful Minnesota reporting law.
New Hampshire is the only New England state that does not mandate reporting. The never-events list includes 27 preventable injuries, among them: operating on the wrong person or wrong side of the body, patient falls, mismatched blood transfusions, and dispensing the wrong drugs.