New York, NY – State health officials say a hospital will give new blood tests to more than 900 patients after an investigation found that a handful of them received inaccurate results last year.
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State officials said Friday the errors stemmed from the mislabeling of blood samples from six patients who were treated by outpatient clinics at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center.
Hospital spokesman Erroll Schneer says the hospital believes the errors were “isolated incidents.”
But Schneer says the hospital will retest as many as 920 patients who had been tested between April and December 2008 just to be safe.
State Health Department spokeswoman Claire Pospisil says officials are looking into whether the errors caused any patients to receive the wrong diagnosis or medication.
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and who do you think will pay for this the hospital? at all not they will bill the insurance companies and it will come out of your hard earned money from your taxes, or your health insurance will go up. when will agencies take responsibility from their own mistakes?
WHH
What on earth were these blood tests for? Doesn’t everyone shudder to think? or can we already guess the obvious answer?
this is awful.
i know someone who had a mistake made with his blood thru a private doctor.
he almost had surgery.
luckily the dr said lets run the blood work one more time.