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Continue readingEmergency room reports reveal racial disparity in injuries caused by police
Hospital emergency department records collected by the CDC reveal not only a racial disparity in the number of nonfatal injuries caused by law enforcement but also an upward trend in their frequency over the last decade.
Continue readingDeath by Law Enforcement: What the data tells us – and what it doesn’t
In Missouri, black people are killed by law enforcement twice as frequently as white people. Nationwide, the rate at which black people are killed by law enforcement is 3 times higher than that of white people, according to the CDC.
Continue readingFirst glimpse at medical error rates separates the good, the bad and the ugly
Between Oct. 1, 2008 and June 30, 2010, Medicare patients at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers, N.Y., suffered thirteen instances of severe bed sores during their stay requiring additional treatment, a rate of nearly 2.9 per 1,000 treated. At St. John’s Riverside Hospital, three miles down Broadway from St. Joseph’s, the rate was 20 times lower: only one severe bed sore was reported, even though St. John's discharged far more Medicare patients during that period -- 8,270 to St. Joseph's 4,541.
Over the protests of groups like the American Hospital ...
Continue readingThe Feds and Social Media II
Here’s an exciting development! Last week, I blogged about an encouraging report by Doug Belzer at Federal Computer Week, where... View Article
Continue readingThe Feds Embrace Social Media
Last week Doug Belzer at Federal Computer Week has an encouraging article about how Twitter, blogs and other Web 2.0... View Article
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