Patient Safety

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Patient Safety

General Information

NEWS:

Alzheimer's study led to warning about naproxen

AMA pushes for public drug study registry

Bacterial Outbreak Tied to Wound Cleaning

British Hospitals Struggle to Limit 'Superbug' Infections

CA-MRSA: A new bug with a familiar name

CT Scans, How Safe?

Consumer Reports Issues Ratings For Drugs

Contracts Keep Drug Research Out of Reach

Despite Warnings, Drug Giant Took Long Path to Vioxx Recall

Doctors Who Sleep More Err Less

Doctors' Group Urges Caution With COX-2 Drugs

FDA is incapable of protecting US "against another Vioxx"

FDA Vet Blows Whistle on "Broken" Agency

FIVE YEARS AFTER IOM REPORT ON MEDICAL ERRORS, NEARLY HALF OF ALL CONSUMERS WORRY ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THEIR HEALTH CARE

Hospital errors generate spectrum of concerns

Hospitals that follow heart attack guidelines save lives

Journal calls for new system to monitor post-marketing drug safety

Many FDA Scientists Had Drug Concerns, 2002 Survey Shows

Medical error affects nearly 25% of Canadians

Medications: Make No Mistake

Montreal Hospitals Hit by Deadly Epidemic

One in 12 older people are prescribed the wrong drug

Patient-Safety Advocates Call for Six Key Changes to Save '100,000 Lives'

Petition to the FDA to remove the cholesterol-lowering drug rosuvastatin (CRESTOR) from the market (HRG Publication #1693)

Report: Half of patients get bad care

Shortage of nurses putting patients at risk

Sleepy interns make more medical mistakes

States moving ahead on patient safety front

Strattera May Cause Hepatotoxicity

Study finds US paediatric medical errors kill 4500 children a year

Study Suggests How Cox Drugs Cause Heart Disease

Study: Full body scans raise cancer risk

Study: Many Can't Read The Label

That Hand You're About To Shake May Prove a Hazard to Your Health

United States brings in new rules to prevent surgical errors

Unsafe Drugs - Who Is Responsible?

Vioxx Withdrawal Causes Concern About FDA

ARTICLES:

Adverse events and patient safety in Canadian health care.

Allergy Medications: Questions To Ask Your Pharmacist

Attention Shoppers: Beware Of Health Claims

Direct-to-consumer advertising: Healthy education or corporate spin?

Editorial on "Error in Medicine and Patient Safety"

Health care as a risk factor

Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion

How To Read A Drug Label

Infections in Intensive Care

Is drug regulation failing?

Making Sense Of Medical Warnings

Medications: Make No Mistake

Nosocomial infections: What needs to be done?

Quality Check

Risk of cancer from diagnostic X-rays

Study: Hospital errors cause 195,000 deaths

Sustainability of medical imaging

Trainee fatigue: Are new limits on work hours enough?

Why do doctors use treatments that do not work?

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Advice available on the Internet for people with coeliac disease: an evaluation of the quality of websites. (J Hum Nutr Diet)

An evaluation of the contents and quality of menopause information on the World Wide Web. (Maturitas)

Incorrect allergy injections: allergists' experiences and recommendations for prevention. (J Allergy Clin Immunol)

Biological effects of exposure to magnetic resonance imaging: an overview (BioMedical Engineering OnLine)

Communication failures: an insidious contributor to medical mishaps. (Acad Med)

Does it matter what a hospital is "high volume" for? Specificity of hospital volume-outcome associations for surgical procedures: analysis of administrative data (BMJ)

Does the architecture of hospital facilities influence nosocomial infection rates? A systematic review. (Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol)

Food-drug interaction: grapefruit juice augments drug bioavailability--mechanism, extent and relevance. (Eur J Clin Nutr)

Gaps between best evidence and practice: causes for concern. (Med J Aust)

Health Plan Members' Views about Disclosure of Medical Errors (Annals of Internal Medicine)

High prevalence of unknown co-medication in hospitalised patients. (Eur J Clin Pharmacol)

How antibiotics can make us sick: the less obvious adverse effects of antimicrobial chemotherapy. (Lancet Infect Dis)

Infectious diseases on the World Wide Web. (Med Ref Serv Q)

Is evidence-based implementation of evidence-based care possible? (Med J Aust)

Ottawa Hospital Patient Safety Study: incidence and timing of adverse events in patients admitted to a Canadian teaching hospital. (CMAJ)

Patient Internet use for health information at three urban primary care clinics. (J Am Med Inform Assoc)

Patient safety; Remember who it's really for. (Int J Med Inf)

Poor communication: root of most patient safety ills. (ED Manag)

Potential benefits of the new Leapfrog standards: effect of process and outcomes measures. (Surgery)

Prevalence and characteristics of nosocomial infections in a Turkish university hospital. (Am J Infect Control)

Profiles in patient safety: medication errors in the emergency department. (Acad Emerg Med)

Risk of cancer from diagnostic X-rays: estimates for the UK and 14 other countries (Lancet)

Survey of computer use for health topics by patients with head and neck cancer. (Head Neck. 2005)

The Canadian Adverse Events Study: the incidence of adverse events among hospital patients in Canada (CMAJ)

The Epidemiology of Prescribing Errors (Arch Intern Med)

The Identification of Medical Errors by Family Physicians During Outpatient Visits (Annals of Family Medicine)

The working hours of hospital staff nurses and patient safety. (Health Aff (Millwood))

Written and verbal information versus verbal information only for patients being discharged from acute hospital settings to home (Cochrane Review) (The Cochrane Library)

INTERNET SITES:

10 Signs That You Need a New Doctor

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Care

Best Treatments

Canadian Quackery Watch

Consumer Affairs Health and Fitness

ConsumerLabs

Grapefruit-Drug Interactions

Health Professions Quality Assurance Washington State

Healthy Skepticism

JCAHO Hospital Quality Check

Misdiagnosis

National Council Against Health Fraud

National Guideline Clearinghouse

National Quality Measures Clearinghouse

New Jersey Physician and Podiatrist Profiles

NIH-Patient Issues

Operation Cure All

Public Citizen

Public Citizen

Quackwatch

Questionable Doctors

Ranking of State Medical Board Serious Disciplinary Actions in 2002

The National Council Against Health Fraud

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