A University of Illinois at Chicago project to improve communication between doctors and their patients about medical mistakes has won a federal grant to expand.
The UIC Medical Center has a program in which errors are investigated quickly and doctors apologize to patients. The hospital makes early offers of compensation to patients and pursues improvements so mistakes aren't repeated.
The nearly $3 million grant allows the university to expand the program to nine Chicago-area hospitals.
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