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Reducing medical errors will require better reporting tools, engaged patients and – you guessed it – culture change
September 28, 2013MedCityNews.com September 27, 2013 8:30 am by Deanna Pogorelc – “Culture change.” Those words just keep coming up again and again in talk about what’s needed to reduce healthcare costs,
Clean Sweep: Hospitals Bring Janitors to the Front Lines of Infection Control
August 30, 2013Scientific American By Maryn McKenna September 11, 2012 When hospitals want to make a name for themselves, they spend on reputations and technology—on the esteemed surgeon or the top-of-the-line gamma
A Name Blacked Out, a Reputation at Risk
December 18, 2012NY Times By BARRY MEIER Published: November 26, 2012 – Is covering a product’s name in a public document a sign that a company has something to hide? And how should
Costly, Repeat Medical Testing Common for Medicare Patients: Study
November 20, 2012November 19, 2012 By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) — Many Medicare patients undergo some kind of repeat medical testing, a new study finds. But it’s
Man who had arms, legs amputated sues Sutter Health
November 19, 2012By Cathy Locke clocke@sacbee.com, The Sacramento Bee, Published: Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 Robert Downey said he remembers going to bed holding his wife. His next memory was waking up in a
Many hospital patients get too much acetaminophen
November 14, 2012Genevra Pittman Reuters, November 13, 2012 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a new study from two Boston hospitals, one in every 15 patients treated with acetaminophen got more than the
The harms of overtreatment
October 11, 2012BMJ | Jeanne Lenzer – Overly aggressive treatment is estimated to cause 30 000 deaths among Medicare recipients alone each year. Overall, unnecessary interventions are estimated to account for 10-30% of
The drugs don’t work: a modern medical scandal
September 26, 2012Ben Goldacre | The Guardian, Friday 21 September 2012 The doctors prescribing the drugs don’t know they don’t do what they’re meant to. Nor do their patients. The manufacturers know
Patient safety advocate’s work recognized in US News & World Report
September 5, 2012Posted by Daniela Nuñez on Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 in Hospital Acquired Infections | After the tragic and preventable death of her mother in August 2009, Mary Brennan-Taylor of Lockport,
Diagnostic Errors Found in 1 of 4 ICU Patient Deaths
August 30, 2012HealthLeaders Media | Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, August 28, 2012 As many as 40,500 American adults may die in hospital intensive care units each year because their critical care