An Australian hospital erroneously sent out 200 notices notifying doctors that their patients had died.
Austin Hospital in Melbourne said that the faxes sent to family doctors declaring 200 live patients dead was human error based on a change to the hospital’s templates normally sent to doctors to notify them that a patient had been released.
“We apologised unreservedly to affected clinics who, for the most part, were very understanding about the error,” said a statement released by the operator Austin Health, adding that the patients’ care had not been compromised in anyway