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NYC hospital fails to inform some patients at risk for cancer
Healthcare Security Weekly, May 23, 2005
A New York City hospital is blaming a clerical worker for not notifying hundreds of women when their cancer-screening tests revealed abnormalities,The Associated Press reports.
The Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx suspended the clerical worker, whose job is to check the results and send letters to women who tested abnormally.
Since late 2003, the hospital failed to inform 307 women of their atypical results. Most had a low level of risk, but 30 patients tested for an elevated risk of cancer.
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