Patient Safety

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Patient Safety

General Information

NEWS:

51pc of hospitals labelled 'too risky'

Almost One In Three Seniors Given Inappropriate Meds

Another Pain Reliever Pulled

Awash in Information, Patients Face a Lonely, Uncertain Road

Birth control patch linked to higher fatality rate

Common Drugs Account for Many Side Effects

Cox-2 Drugs Take Center Stage at Government Hearings

COX-2 Painkillers Restricted in Europe

Crestor May Pose Risk of Muscle Damage

CT scans prompt radiation warning

Doctors Not Heeding 'Black-Box' Warnings on Rx Drugs

Drug complaints reach record high

Duke Health Brief: Patients Can Be Their Own Best Advocate

FDA Issues Nationwide Notification of Recall of Certain Guidant Implantable Defibrillators and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillators

F.D.A. Seizes Millions of Pills From Pharmaceutical Plants

FDA should pull pain drugs, says group

FDA Whistleblower Warns of Cox-2 Risks

FDA: Implanted defibrillator defects on the rise

Flu Shots for Elderly May Not Save Lives

Further action taken on COX 2 inhibitors in Europe

Journal Commentary Labels FDA 'Timid and Toothless'

Md. May Track Infections Contracted in Hospitals

Medical errors still claiming many lives

Merck failed to test safety of Vioxx on heart

Minnesota hospital errors revealed

More Experienced Physicians May Provide Lower Quality of Care

NHS errors led to more than 800 deaths

Not So Fast: Why Your Doctor Is Skeptical

Patients on Sunny Side Do Better After Surgery

Preventable infections are out of control in Canadian hospitals

Preventing medical errors

Researchers Ignored Early COX-2 Warnings

Study Blames Vioxx for Up to 140,000 Cases of Heart Disease

Study: Lipitor No Better Than Rivals

The Most Common Medication Error

The Practice of Safe Medicine

Vioxx, Celebrex overprescribed? Study: Patients could have taken older drugs safely

Warning Issued on Use of Crestor by Asians

'We want to cut the risk of mistakes'

ARTICLES:

30 Safe Practices for Better Health Care. Fact Sheet

AHRQ - 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors (2000)

AHRQ - Questions To Ask Your Doctor Before You Have Surgery (1995)

Are All NSAIDs Dangerous?

Better Communication Needed to Reduce Medical Errors

Can Thorough Cleaning of Endoscopes Prevent Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus Infection?

Drug Name Confusion: Preventing Medication Errors

Even pharmaceutical companies are vulnerable to loss of faith

Health Tip: Don't Be Afraid to Ask Questions About Your Health

Hospital-acquired Infections in Pennsylvania

Medications: Make No Mistake

Molecular identification of potential pathogens in water and air of a hospital therapy pool. (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005)

NGC - Infection control. Prevention of healthcare-associated infection in primary and community care. (2003)

Radiation Risk From CT Scans: A Call for Patient-Focused Imaging

STATE RESOURCES for Selected Measures from the 2004 National Healthcare Quality Report(State Rankings)

The safety of Australian healthcare: 10 years after QAHCS

The Center for Food-Drug Interaction Research and Education (Grapefruit Juice)

The Leapfrog Group Hospital Patient Safety Survey Results

The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality

Update: Grapefruit Juice-Drug Interactions Still Pose Risks

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Adverse impact of surgical site infections in English hospitals. (J Hosp Infect. 2005)

Ambiguity and workarounds as contributors to medical error. (Ann Intern Med. 2005)

An evaluation of prescribing errors in primary care in Bahrain. (Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2005)

Battling the Obstetric Malpractice Crisis: Improving Patient Safety, Part 2 (Medscape Ob/Gyn & Women's Health. 2005)

Creating an organizational culture for medication safety. (Nurs Clin North Am. 2005)

CT scan and the pediatric trauma patient--are we overdoing it? (J Pediatr Surg)

Do physicians know when their diagnoses are correct? Implications for decision support and error reduction. (J Gen Intern Med. 2005)

Error reporting and disclosure systems: views from hospital leaders. (JAMA. 2005)

Errors in laboratory medicine: practical lessons to improve patient safety. (Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2005)

Ethical issues in patient safety. (Thorac Surg Clin. 2005)

Evidence-based guidelines for the prevention and treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis: a consensus document of the Belgian Bone Club. (Osteoporos Int. 2005)

Expertise isn't the only answer to leadership in safety. (Nurs Econ. 2005)

Frequent prescribing of drugs with potential gastrointestinal toxicity among continuous users of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. (Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2005)

Fumbled handoffs: one dropped ball after another. (Ann Intern Med. 2005)

Handwashing in the intensive care unit: a big measure with modest effects. (J Hosp Infect. 2005)

[Hospital drug safety: medication errors and adverse drug reactions] (Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax. 2005)

[How to prevent nosocomial infections? An international overview] (Pflege Z. 2005)

Improving patient safety: moving beyond the "hype" of medical errors

Medical errors detected and corrected by a pediatric infectious diseases consultation service. (Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2005)

Meta-analysis of Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitors and Their Effects on Blood Pressure. (Arch Intern Med. 2005)

Minimising cross-infection risks associated with beds and mattresses. (Nurs Times. 2005)

Missing clinical information during primary care visits. (JAMA. 2005)

Neurologic patient safety: an in-depth study of malpractice claims. (Neurology. 2005)

[Patient safety and risk management.] (Med Klin (Munich). 2005)

Patient safety - how much is enough? (Health Policy. 2005)

[Quality and shortages of patient safety--how big is the problem?] (Lakartidningen. 2005)

Reducing the risk of medication errors in women. (J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2005)

Respiratory medications and the risk of cardiac arrhythmias. (Epidemiology. 2005)

Systematic Review: The Relationship between Clinical Experience and Quality of Health Care (Annals of Internal Medicine 2005)

Surgical equipment and materials left in patients. (Br J Perioper Nurs. 2005)

The Long Road to Patient Safety (JAMA. 2005)

The myopathy of statins (Journal of Renal Nutrition 2005)

Trauma patient hospital-associated infections: risks and outcomes. (J Trauma. 2005)

Use of handheld devices in critical care. (Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am. 2005)

INTERNET SITES:

10 Signs That You Need a New Doctor

AHRQ - The National Quality Measures Clearinghouse

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Care

Best Treatments

Canadian Quackery Watch

Consumer Affairs Health and Fitness

ConsumerLabs

Effectiveness & Safety of Prescription Drugs

Grapefruit-Drug Interactions

Health Professions Quality Assurance Washington State

Healthy Skepticism

HHS - Hospital Compare

JCAHO Hospital Quality Check

Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

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

Quackwatch

Questionable Doctors

Ranking of State Medical Board Serious Disciplinary Actions in 2002

Red Flags

The Leapfrog Group Hospital Patient Safety Survey Results

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