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A woman who arrived at Christchurch Hospital's emergency department in acute pain died the next day after staff missed signs she had sepsis.
The 65-year-old patient died of urosepsis, a life-threatening complication of a urinary tract infection, in January 2022.
In a report released on Tuesday, deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Carolyn Cooper said the hospital failed to provide reasonable care, making "severe departures from standard practice".
"I concur that there was a failure to recognise urosepsis in a t
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