Tag Archives: adverse events

What does informed consent mean when it comes to swine flu vaccination?

September 24, 2009 – 6:53 pm

Further to the earlier post about Minister Roxon’s spruiking of swine flu vaccination (you can see various interviews here, here and here – what a busy day she’s had), I’ve been pondering the issue of informed consent.
Below is a document that the Medical Indemnity Protection Society has sent members, making it clear that they will [...]

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Health safety chief offers media some lessons

January 28, 2009 – 8:37 pm

Professor Chris Baggoley, Chief Executive of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, sent this email in response to my recent post about the complexity of factors which contribute to errors in the media and health care industries:
Hello Melissa
While acknowledging that the consequences of actual harm arising from an opinion piece in [...]

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The media and healthcare: sharing our mistakes

January 27, 2009 – 3:12 pm

In a recent Crikey article, journalist Margaret Simons investigated how The Age newspaper came to publish a column “in error”.
Reading about the many factors and circumstances – both systemic and individual – that contributed to the error – I was again reminded of how the media and health industries have so much in common, at [...]

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