Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Of particular concern, according to the article, “even if doctors recommend genetic testing, they may lack the expertise to determine which tests people need and how to interpret the results. That’s the role of genetic counselors, but their ranks are stretched thin.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

ECRI builds this report of the Top 10 patient safety issues leveraging its long-time expertise in this field: their staff are expert across the health care landscape including people in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, risk management, and of course patient safety and quality.

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2022

And it’s largely preventable—if not the disease itself (in the case of Type 2 diabetes) then at least the most severe outcomes. The patient is the most important member of their own healthcare team, as diabetes treatment involves a lot of self-care and preventative lifestyle choices.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

That patient must manage many clinical and lifestyle workflows through one 24-hour day — for example, measuring blood glucose levels, tracking blood pressure and activity/exercise, and communicating with a nurse practitioner, health coach, or doctor’s office as well as receiving advice or support from clinical team members.

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Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 28, 2023

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Commonwealth Fund, the United States has the highest maternal death rate of any developed nation, and Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 17, 2022

Analytic expertise is required to help prevent “information overload” and provide healthcare professionals with the tools for integrating and using the data for the betterment of that patient. As a result, a substantial quantity of stored data is never used in either inpatient or outpatient settings [2].

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Patient Safety Movement

AUGUST 29, 2023

Peter Pronovost urged that people stop believing that harm in healthcare is inevitable and start believing that it is entirely preventable. We have had a bad time this last week affecting the NHS in England, as the case of Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse in Chester, was concluded. We were fortunate, though not all are.

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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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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

20:30 The importance of data in making treatment decisions Lauren said the data supporting HeartFlow helps to ensure doctors don’t put stents into people who don’t need them. ‘’A And there is a risk, there really is a risk of doctors putting stents in people who don’t need them.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

More than 40 percent of these events are due to preventable errors. The PCAST report also draws attention to the fact that medical errors and patient injuries persist at alarmingly high rates despite ongoing efforts to improve quality care on the part of practitioners and their organizations.

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation are known for our recognition of loved ones who have lost someone from preventable harm in healthcare. However, we also very strongly support the heroic efforts of our healthcare workers as we seek solutions to the system faults that lead to preventable errors occurring. For example, H.R.

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Patient Safety Movement

JANUARY 31, 2024

In medicine, thousands of patients sustain preventable harm, and yet we do not know the actual number, as very little is reported. If this data were made available, with the aid of AI technology reviewing medical records, would we have the same response as in the airline industry to prevent the same errors from occurring again and again?

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