Hospitals hiding their errors

The vast majority of mistakes made in Danish hospitals never see the light of day, according to an evaluation from the patient complaint board Patientombuddet. Since 2004, hospitals have been required to register unintended occurrences of their treatments, but Patientombuddet estimates that just a fraction of cases, between five and 20 percent, are ever reported.

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