Patient Safety Week 2014 – CTCPS highlights Antibiotics and their Overuse
March 6, 2014
It is Patient Safety Week, and we would like to highlight a medical concern that we are actively working on: Infections and the overuse of antibiotics. According to the CDC,
How Can So Many Bright People Not See What I See?
February 5, 2014
Connecticut Health Foundation | February 4, 2014 | Today’s guest post was written by Jean Rexford, Executive Director of the CT Center for Patient Safety and former Connecticut Health Foundation
How to be a good visitor at a nursing home
January 27, 2014
With flu season upon us, we need to remind ourselves of the following suggestions found in this APIC poster on how to be a good visitor at a nursing home. But,
Not all FDA-approved drugs get same level of testing
January 25, 2014
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY12:21 p.m. EST January 22, 2014 | Patients might assume that all approved drugs are created equal. Yet new research finds that there can be big differences
Teaching Doctors the Art of Negotiation
January 25, 2014
NY Times | JANUARY 23, 2014, 12:30 PM | By DHRUV KHULLAR | By the time I rushed to his room, my patient had already ripped out his I.V., packed his
5 reasons to stop using antibacterial soap
January 21, 2014
Salon | Wednesday, Jan 8, 2014 08:00 AM EST | Joseph Stromberg, Smithsonian.com | This article originally appeared on Smithsonian.com | A few weeks ago, the FDA announced a bold new position
YOUR MONEY-Are drug companies using your health records to sell you stuff?
January 9, 2014
Reuters – 6 hours ago By Beth Pinsker NEW YORK, Jan 8 (Reuters) – If you went to visit your doctor and a drug company representative was sitting in the room with
Report Finds More Flaws in Digitizing Patient Files
January 9, 2014
NY Times By REED ABELSON and JULIE CRESWELLJAN. 8, 2014 Although the federal government is spending more than $22 billion to encourage hospitals and doctors to adopt electronic health records,
In A Major Shift, Medicare Wants Power to Ban Harmful Prescribers
January 8, 2014
by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Jan. 6, 2014, 4:43 p.m. Medicare plans to arm itself with broad new powers to better control — and potentially ban — doctors engaged in fraudulent
In Churn of Assisted Living Deals, An Island of Misery
January 7, 2014
by A.C. Thompson ProPublica, Dec. 31, 2013, 2:54 p.m. The one-story beige building on Southwest Hill Road in McMinnville, Ore. – an old mill town between Portland and Salem –