|
NEW YORK (AP) - A New York City hospital admits that it didn't inform hundreds of women of their abnormal results on a cancer-screening test. An emergency review of all Pap smear tests at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx since late 2003 showed that 307 women were never notified of their atypical results.
Most of the women had a low level of risk, meaning they probably had an inflammation or an infection, not cancer. But 30 patients tested for an elevated risk of cancer.
Officials blame a clerical worker assigned to check the results and send letters to women who tested abnormally. The unidentified worker has been suspended.
|