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Medical Errors in Health Care
The yearly action plan should focus attention on expanding research on CFS, augment health care provider education, and execute the CFSCC's charter to provide coordination and ensure accountability of the federal agencies' CFS programs. The Committee also urges DHHS and the agencies represented on the CFSCC to take a leadership role in informing health care professionals and the general public about CFS, focusing on the prevalent and serious nature of CFS. The Committee believes that it is important that the Secretary and the Surgeon General undertake a prominent educational campaign to inform the public that CFS is a serious, prevalent and disabling illness.
The Committee directs the Secretary to ensure that all of the Public Health Service agencies' CFS research programs are effective and ambitious. The Committee understands that the General Accounting Office (GAO) is studying and reporting on overall CFS activities at CDC and expects that the Secretary will respond swiftly to correct problems revealed by the GAO study. The Committee is aware of efforts by Harvard clinical Technology, Inc. to reduce medical errors by developing an automated drug infusion system that uses a bar code on the medication to determine appropriate dosages. The Committee is aware of a program called Children's Health Life Skills Initiative as proposed by UNC Chapel Hill, UNC Greensboro, NC A&T, NC State, East Carolina University, and Appalachian State University.
The Committee is aware of the interest in an integrative medicine program which combines conventional medical science with promising alternative therapies. The Committee recognizes the unique programs being conducted at the Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH) in Philadelphia, PA, especially in treating oncology, cardio-vascular and rheumatology patients. The Committee is aware of the Program for Training Research in Preventive Maternal Health and Child Health Services at the Lawton and Reah Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies, co-located at the University of Florida and the University of South Florida.
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