Published in: USA Today Written by: Erin Donaghue 7/25/2007 - Retired Boston physician Jonathan Fine became a patient advocate in 2004 when he realized communication between doctor and patient is often the first casualty of a major illness. Miscommunication puts...

Published in: U.S. News & World Report Written by: Avery Comarow 7/17/2007 - Making patient safety one of the elements of the Best Hospitals methodology has been a goal for us and our resourceful and skilled contractor, RTI International, for several years. We're...

Improved Public Databases Let People Compare Practices and Outcomes; The Importance of Looking Past the Numbers Published in: Wall Street Journal Written by: Theo Francis 7/10/2007 - Amid a broad push to bring more accountability to the U.S. health-care system,...

Grass-Roots Movement Offers Support, Information to PeopleAffected by Medical Errors Published in: The Wall Street Journal Written by: Laura Landro 5/30/2007 - When her 18-month-old daughter Josie died after a series of medical mistakes at Johns Hopkins Children's...

What to Do Instead Published in: AOL Body News Written by: CURT PESMEN, HEALTH MAGAZINE, CNN 5/17/2007 - Maybe I’m the wrong ex-patient to be telling you this: Experimental surgery erased Stage III colon cancer from my shell-shocked body six years ago. But even I've...

The Goal is to Communicate Published in: Newsweek Written by: Claudia Kalb 10/16/2006 - Every day, hospitals across the country care for Americans in need. Babies are born, heart-attack victims are saved, broken bones are healed. But today, as the population ages,...

Published in: PBS 10/1/2006 - Remaking American Medicine is a four-part PBS series, airing in October 2006, that explores the healthcare quality crisis and the innovative solutions being undertaken by providers, patients and their families to transform the care...

Medical errors kill 100,000 Americans every year. A new vanguard is out to fix the fatal flaws. Published in: Forbes Written by: Robert Langreth 6/20/2005 - Josie king was a curious and precocious baby. At 18 months old she loved jumping on the trampoline and had...

Published in: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Written by: Christopher Snowbeck 12/4/2004 - Little Josie King was on the road to recovery when doctors and nurses at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore failed to notice her sudden and severe dehydration. That condition...

7/21/2004 - Today, Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) officially introduced the "Josie King Act" (also known as the "QUEST Act"), named for an 18-month old infant who died as a result of preventable medical errors. The bill would transform the technological...

Published in: Hopkins Medicine Magazine Written by: Mary Ann Ayd 5/1/2004 - In the early 1970s, when George Dover trained as a pediatric hematologist, he learned from the outset that tragic endings would be an inevitable part of his job. At that time, the prognosis...

Published in: Baltimore Sun Written by: Erika Niedowski 12/14/2003 - Part 1, How medical errors took a little girl's life, followed by Part 2, From tragedy, a quest for safer care.

Written by: Robert Bazell 11/25/2003 - Hospitals have taken a cue from the airline industry and are implementing measures to cut down on the risk of human error that can lead to a catastrophe. Health officials hope that putting these safeguards in place now will...

10/11/2002 - Sorrel spoke at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's National Conference. To receive a copy of the video for educational use, please go to the The Josie King Story DVD page.