Some Tests, Long Ignored, Showed Signs of Heart Illness
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Published: May 26, 2010
New York City’s public hospital system said on Wednesday that some of the thousands of heart test results that were never sent to doctors at Harlem Hospital Center since 2007 had shown signs of abnormal heart function.
Hospital officials made the admission a day after acknowledging that results of 4,000 of the tests, called echocardiograms, had never been seen by doctors because of a practice of allowing technicians to read them first.
On Tuesday, they said that no harm had been caused by the process because they believed that the technicians were so good at reading the tests. On Wednesday, they said their review undercut that belief.
Some Ignored Heart Tests at Harlem Hospital Showed Problems - NYTimes.com.
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