Patient Safety

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• Infection-Control Strategies At Leading Hospital Can Be Adapted For Everyday Use

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 146
    Infection-Control Strategies At Leading Hospital Can Be Adapted For Everyday Use
  11 hours ago

• Burnout And Mental Distress Strongly Related To Errors By U.S. Surgeons

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 146
    Burnout And Mental Distress Strongly Related To Errors By U.S. Surgeons
  11 hours ago

• Off-Hours Neuro CT Exams Accurately Interpreted By On-Call Radiology Residents

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 146
    Off-Hours Neuro CT Exams Accurately Interpreted By On-Call Radiology Residents
  1 day ago

• Involving Family In Medical Rounds Benefits Both Family And Medical Team

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 146
    Involving Family In Medical Rounds Benefits Both Family And Medical Team
  1 day ago

• Greater Risk Of Major Medical Errors When Surgeons Are Burned Out, Depressed

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 146
    Greater Risk Of Major Medical Errors When Surgeons Are Burned Out, Depressed
  2 days ago

• Early Senate Health Care Buzz Gives Patient Safety Fans Reason to be Thankful

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 466
  Here at ThePopTort, we love holidays—especially Thanksgiving, which in addition to delicious food, means expressing gratitude for cool and virtuous things—like optimism.  So you can imagine how tickled we were to find a couple of news items suggesting fans of patient rights and safety might have reason to be ...
  3 days ago

• 10 More Patients at Los Angeles Hospital Get CT Radiation Overdose

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  This time it is not Cedars but a hospital in the Glendale, CA area and a lot less patients, but that doesn’t make a lot of difference if you are one of the patients affected.  It looks like a similar software type of issue with reprogramming.  After having written code for a while, one thing you do with code, is ...
  3 days ago

• Health IT pros warn of network vulnerabilities during cyberwar

  
  News — Authority: 127
  Fans of doomsday scenarios, gather round. It may not be hackers that present the greatest threat to EHR databases, but terrorist groups or rogue regimes, a hospital IT director told federal officials last week. Testifying Friday before the federal Health IT Standards Committee, Chad Skidmore, director of network ...
  4 days ago

• Las Vegas Hepatitis Case Takes a Criminal Turn—Possibly at Victims’ Expense

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 466
  That terrible story about the Las Vegas clinic that reused dirty syringes and vials, potentially exposing some 50,000 Nevadans to Hepatitis C, may be about to take a very unfortunate turn from a civil justice perspective.  Ironically, that’s because criminal charges may soon be filed against the majority owner ...
  4 days ago

• Congressman fights for patient safety

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  A short but fiery speech made on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives has raised the hopes of patient safety advocates across the nation.
  5 days ago

• European consumers concerned about counterfeit medicines

  
  Your Story — Authority: 582
  Five per cent of consumers across five European countries suspect they have received a counterfeit prescription drug whilst
  1 week ago

• Registration in the Palm of Your Hand

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  “When patients were admitted to the new El Camino Hospital in Mountain View for the first time on Monday, November 16, the registration process included something most people associate with sci-fi thrillers — a cutting edge biometric registration system that “reads” patients’ identities by scanning the ...
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• Genzyme’s Friday the 13th

  
  PharmTech Talk — Authority: 120
  Friday the 13th was an unlucky day for Genzyme (Cambridge, MA). On that day, the company and the US Food and Drug Administration alerted healthcare providers that stainless steel fragments, nonlatex rubber, and fiberlike material had been found in products filled at Genzyme’s Allston Landing manufacturing ...
  1 week ago

• Hilarious SNL Opening on Medical Malpractice

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 466
  It’s not everyday that Saturday Night Live audiences get to see just what we’re talking about! Check out the video at about 2:05 for a little patient safety humor.
  1 week ago

• Patients More Satisfied in Care if Errors are Disclosed

  
  Nursing Show Podcast for RN (Registered Nurse) and Student Nurses — Authority: 121
  Patients do see beyond the error when health practitioners disclose the truth. In the news article from the Boston Globe , results from a conducted survey by Dr. Lenny Lopez of Massachusetts General Hospital from 2,500 patients who had been patients in 16 hospitals in Massachusetts revealed that those who were told ...
  1 week ago

• Swine Flu Vaccine Production – More Craziness from Big Business

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 466
  The conservative Federalist Society held a little pow-wow yesterday to strategize about “federal preemption” - immunity for corporations that produce unsafe products - which the U.S. Supreme Court rejected earlier this year .  Perhaps unsurprisingly, it didn’t take long for the discussion to go off the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dartmouth Atlas and Physician Supply - No Relation to "Tort Reform"

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 466
  First it was the GAO .  Then the Bureau of Economic Research .  The Cincinnati Enquirer .  The Texas Observer .  What are we talking about?  Clear evidence by any credible benchmark that there is no link between state “tort reform” laws and where doctors decide to practice. So we can’t say we were ...
  2 weeks ago

• Court Documents Reveal Pfizer was Massaging Data to Increase Neurotonin Sales

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 466
  Documents obtained in lawsuits by insurers and consumers against the “ world’s biggest drug maker ” Pfizer have given rise to a report to be published today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), indicating the company “altered or omitted unfavorable study findings to expand its epilepsy drug ...
  2 weeks ago

• November Drug Safety Update from MHRA/CHM

  
  NPCi blog — Authority: 119
  12 November 2009 The MHRA and CHM have published the November edition of Drug Safety Update (DSU). Highlights include: Orciprenaline (Alupent®) will be withdrawn from the UK market over the coming year, due to its unfavourable risk-benefit profile. A reminder about the reporting ...
  2 weeks ago

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