MELBOURNE: An Australian hospital apologised "unreservedly" Thursday after sending out notices to the doctors of more than 200 patients telling them they had died instead of being discharged.
Austin Health, which runs the hospital, said the notices - which were sent on Wednesday, July 30 - were a result of "human error" after changes to a death notification template were saved to the standard discharge template.
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