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The Empowered Patient: Report An Adverse Event/survey and website information

The Empowered Patient Coalition

Patient reporting site for medical errors is nowonline!

Dear Friends,

The Empowered Patient Coalition is pleased to announce that a new survey for reporting adverse medical events is now permanently online at http://www. empoweredpatientcoalition.org/ report-a-medical-event.  This survey is designed by patients, for patients, in order to give people who have experienced adverse medical events a place where their reports can be counted.  

Created in collaboration with Consumers Union Safe Patient Project, the survey aims to provide a snapshot of medical harm as it is lived by those who undergo it, beginning with the patient's initial procedure or treatment and continuing all the way through the patient and family experience of the legal system.  Responses will be presented in de-identified, aggregated form at www.empoweredpatientcoalition.org.   

This is an international survey.  Reports will be displayed by country, and reports from the US and Canada will also be tallied by state or province whenever the respondent provides such information....cont'd