Hospital missed critical signs before young dad’s death, review finds | ABC NEWS
It’s ‘highly probable’ that doctors at the Mackay Hospital read the wrong patient’s blood results when they discharged a man who died three weeks later.
A Queensland Health review found clinicians were fatigued, and a bed shortage may have contributed to the 41-year-old’s death and others.
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