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University of Alaska Anchorage, School of Nursing, Anchorage, USA.
Should the United States require mandatory reporting of medical errors within the health care system? Many barriers to medical error reporting currently exist and have made it difficult to establish a nationwide reporting system. As such, individual states have begun to address this issue one state at a time. This article reviews the barriers to nationwide reporting, provides a brief historical perspective on quality initiatives including medical error reporting, examines what the individual states have initiated, and considers these implications from a nursing perspective. Finally, the hands of "big money" stakeholders are presented and considered throughout the entire discussion.
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