N.L. Health Board Missed Dozens of Breast Cancer Tests, Health Minister Says
Posted on: Friday, 2 November 2007, 15:00 CDT
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland's health minister says the province's largest health board missed dozens of medical records when it said it had finished a review that found more than 300 patients were given inaccurate breast cancer test results.
Last December, Eastern Health said it had reviewed 939 breast cancer tests, and it was discovered months later that about a third of them were wrong.
Health Minister Ross Wiseman says a departmental examination found the actual number of breast cancer tests reviewed is closer to 1,000.
Wiseman says the tests were missed because of sloppy database management by Eastern Health, and he hopes to have a precise number of wrong breast cancer tests within weeks.
Wiseman calls the poor record-keeping "unacceptable."
Eastern Health is the subject of a judicial inquiry and a class-action lawsuit for the botched breast cancer tests.
Source: Canadian Press
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