Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

Accountability through tracking and monitoring, and. With comfortable shoes on my feet and heart health on my mind, I curated some favorite tools at CES 2020 that populate a lovely portfolio of products to help consumer and clinicians address the many facets of cardiac care — for prevention, chronic management, and stress reduction.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020. Of the seven resulting deaths, one was deemed preventable.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We are also dedicating time to create awareness of how prolific medical errors are in every city around the world. I believe many clinicians don’t even know the exact number of preventable harm and death in their own hospitals due to a lack of transparency. The doctors and hospital took no responsibility for what had happened.

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Patient Safety Movement

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Each year, WHO highlights a theme to bring awareness to a specific area where urgent action is necessary to reduce preventable harm. This year’s theme is Medication Safety to underscore the need to implement measures that promote safe medication distribution to prevent medication errors and medication-related harm.

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Four out of five of these pregnancy deaths were considered preventable.2,3 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Four in 5 Pregnancy-Related Deaths in the U.S. Are Preventable.”, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2023. 2,3 We must improve access to good maternity care. Michael A.E. Blanchi, D.W.,

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 1, 2023

Save the Date: June 1-2, 2023 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit The 10-year anniversary marks professionals like you making a significant difference in eliminating preventable medical errors. Please visit psmf.org for more details. million patients are misdiagnosed, 2.6 Yours, Michael A.E.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

However, as the report explains, some experts are concerned that widespread genetic testing may also identify mutations whose impact is unclear, creating anxiety and leading to further testing and to treatment of questionable value—putting patients at higher risk of harm from medical errors needlessly.

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