Letter to CDC: Need ICD Code for Medical Errors
Carl Bettinger is a physician and plaintiff lawyer and a long time friend. He alerted me to a 2016 letter sent by Johns Hopkins University hospital to the CDC pointing out the need for a separate code to identify the frightening number of medical errors so they can be properly counted. It is a helpful resource and this is where the letter can be found: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2822345/Hopkins-CDC-letter.pdf : Methodology used for collecting national health statistics We are writing this letter to respectfully ask…