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This site, and the research it supports, is dedicated to the effort
to obtain a more complete understanding of the facts surrounding
the 2004 exposure of approximately 3,500 Duke Hospitals surgery
patients to hydraulic fluid used in error in the sterilizing process
for instruments used on patients in surgery. The information gained
from this research is important to health care planning for the
victims and to the improvement of medical safety practices at Duke
Hospitals and medical facilities nationwide.
If you have information which can help with this important task,
please click on the links at the bottom of the first page on the
type of information needed, and please let us know if you have any
feedback on these important open research items.can find in the
root of the web.
The research into the Duke Hospitals surgical patient exposure
to hydraulic fluid exposure is being conducted on an independent
basis, and is not connected with, sponsored by, or controlled by,
Duke Hospitals or any related organization. Your confidentiality
will be protected to the full extent of the law.
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