Finding a silver lining: the importance of documenting medical tragedies

The radiation overexposure tragedy at a Columbus, Ohio, hospital impacted hundreds of patient lives and made a lasting impression on the regulation and oversight of the use of radiation medicine on a national level. Archival documentation of the incident and the current-day importance of the data co...

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Autor principal: Wiener, Judith A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medical Library Association 2018
Materias:
History Matters
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5886510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29632450
http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2018.408
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description The radiation overexposure tragedy at a Columbus, Ohio, hospital impacted hundreds of patient lives and made a lasting impression on the regulation and oversight of the use of radiation medicine on a national level. Archival documentation of the incident and the current-day importance of the data collected during and after the event is discussed and highlights many of the reasons why the history of past medical disasters matters to us today.
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spelling pubmed-58865102018-04-09 Finding a silver lining: the importance of documenting medical tragedies Wiener, Judith A. J Med Libr Assoc History Matters The radiation overexposure tragedy at a Columbus, Ohio, hospital impacted hundreds of patient lives and made a lasting impression on the regulation and oversight of the use of radiation medicine on a national level. Archival documentation of the incident and the current-day importance of the data collected during and after the event is discussed and highlights many of the reasons why the history of past medical disasters matters to us today. Medical Library Association 2018-04 2018-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5886510/ /pubmed/29632450 http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2018.408 Text en Copyright: © 2018, Authors. Articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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