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September 01, 2010 — , campaigners say. Patient Safety Alerts are issued when potentially harmful situations are identified in healthcare organisations. Chaity Action against Medical Accidents (AVMA) said 63% of trusts in...
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September 01, 2010 — County supervisors are pushing to see confidential medical records used by county doctors to evaluate their peers to determine whether they have met accepted standards of care, saying they need the information to...
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August 31, 2010 — this four-minute safety awareness video, produced by Quantros. Much of its content will be familiar to our readers here (the frequency of medical errors and hospital acquired infections), but I’m posting it because of...
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August 29, 2010 — by Margalit Gur-Arie Recently, yet another alarming Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) study made headlines. According to Healthcare IT News , The Leapfrog Group, a staunch advocate of CPOE, is now sounding the alarm on untested CPOE...
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August 28, 2010 — safety awareness video, produced by Quantros. Much of its content will be familiar to our readers here (the frequency of medical errors and hospital acquired infections), but I’m posting it here...
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August 27, 2010 — RM&PSI, the Risk Management and Patient Safety Institute provided a forum for me to not only give a speech today on patient advocacy, but also to passionately...
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August 24, 2010 — What happens when a university is bound up in the outcome of an industry clinical trial? What does it say when university researchers are actively recruiting patients for a trial while also accepting consulting or...
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August 24, 2010 — When the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NoVaRHIO) goes live with its first major step towards an full scale interoperable eHealth Information Exchange (eHIE) connecting patients and physicians across the region, it...
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August 23, 2010 — The September 2010 issue of Health Affairs is devoted to two issues that arguably were insufficiently addressed by the Affordable Care Act: medical liability and patient safety; and the growing...
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August 19, 2010 — The Connecticut Mirror: "Hartford Hospital opened an expanded emergency department this month, with new rooms and triage areas meant to keep up with an increase in patient visits. Across town, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center is...
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August 19, 2010 — Patients are not safe if the nurses cannot speak out against hospital violations, especially cases of patient abandonment. Hospitals and medical care providers cannot dump patients. That includes established patients (like Dr. Alison Toth from...
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August 17, 2010 — From the Journal of Graduate Medical Education:An alternative approach, which we believe best incorporates live interaction and real-time learning while enhancing patient care and maintaining clinical applicability, is a modification of the...
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August 16, 2010 — greater patient safety and cost savings for both patients and hospitals. From the product page: SutureAssist™ is a unique, stable, housing device for the retention and...
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August 15, 2010 — The Canadian MOREOB patient safety program has a measurable, positive impact on the health of mothers and babies. This is the conclusion of a study featured in the August edition of the Journal of...
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August 13, 2010 — by Bob Wachter, MD One of the mantras of performance improvement is that caregivers and provider organizations should learn from their experiences. That’s all well and good, but how about policy-setting organizations? Recently, in the New...