Poor communication between clinical teams led to fatal mix-up in Hong Kong public hospital, investigation concludes

Inadequate communication between clinical teams resulted in the death of a 60-year-old patient who bled heavily and died in a public hospital after a procedure to extract liver tissue, an investigation panel has concluded.The panel was set up by Princess Margaret Hospital to investigate the death of the man, who was diagnosed with necrotising pneumonia due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and was admitted to its intensive care unit last November.He was…