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Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.
It was inevitable that the sentinel event report , designed to help hospitals improve systems, would be seized upon by journalists to score some easy sensational headlines. The Dom Post supplies us with this fine headline:
Hospitals to blame in 92 deaths
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As I suspected, the media is slowly digging out bits of the sentinel event report and releasing a series of bad news reports about hospitals. News about medical errors always generates good ratings. Today’s article is about drug errors of which there were 21 serious events last year. In fairness, the article at least tried [...]

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