Category Archives: Patient Safety Activism
Lax Oversight Leaves Surgery Center Regulators And Patients In The Dark
August 17, 2018Kaiser Health News By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News and Mark Alesia, USA Today Network August 9, 2018 This story also ran on USA Today. This story can be republished
Hospital Compare lifts the veil on sepsis care. Check your hospital’s score
August 17, 2018STAT By Steve Claypool | July 26, 2018 Sepsis care often requires breathing assistance. APStock More than a decade ago, a young man showed up in the emergency department of
Patient Engagement in Research: A Toolkit for Patient-Family Advisory Councils
October 10, 2017From Planetree through a project that was funded by a Eugene Washington Engagement Award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to support our understanding of how Patient-Family Advisory Councils engage
An Invitation to Patient and Family Engaged Care for Consumers: What it is, Why it Matters and How Patients and Families Can Engage
July 24, 2017As one of the co-authors, I am excited to share that the BMJ has just published, as a response to a British Medical Journal editorial, An Invitation to Patient and Family Engaged Care for
‘Bag of Pills’: Is It Necessary? Fewer medications is an achievable goal
May 10, 2016MedPage Today by Joyce Frieden News Editor, MedPage Today WASHINGTON — Polypharmacy is a difficult problem for many physicians who treat older patients, but there are steps they can take to cut
Let’s involve Connecticut patients in reducing medical errors
March 15, 2016Lisa Freeman, Connecticut Center for Patient Safety, Executive Director March 13 through 18 is National Patient Safety Awareness Week. As I sit here, thinking of what to write, stories of the people
Connecticut needs transparency in health care
March 20, 2015The current legislative session in Hartford holds promise for improving the safety and quality of health care in Connecticut. There are a number of bipartisan bills introduced by Senator Looney
Op-Ed: CT assembly should enact informed consent law for nursing home elders
March 19, 2015When it comes to the use of antipsychotic drugs to address challenging behaviors presented by seniors with dementia, CT exceeded one goal for reduction of use, but still ranks last in New England
Rants of a Patient Safety Advocate – True Story in the Emergency Room: The Emergency Room Dilemma
March 17, 2015My friend and fellow advocate, Ilene Corina, wrote: “Just imagine walking into a supermarket and the carts are all sitting in the aisles so scattered you can barely get through.
A Call to Action: It’s Time to Break Another Glass Ceiling
March 2, 2015Patient-Centered Care involves healthcare systems embracing a culture and a philosophy that includes and considers patient’s perspectives in everything that they do. I recently wrote an article for Planetree’s Planetalk