Lisa McGiffert, director of the Consumers Union's Safe Patient Project, which engages in advocacy and education on patient-safety issues, discusses hospital efforts to reduce infections, the prevalence of other types of medical errors, and congressional legislation to speed drug and device approvals. Here is an edited transcript of their discussion.
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