Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

With the emergence of an updated vaccine to prevent the worst effects of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 virus, coupled with this Labor Day week and political season, it’s a good time to summon the spirit and work of the artist Diego Rivera through his Detroit Industry murals. Or a doctor and a nurse? Are those his parents?

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

NEW FEDERAL EFFORTS TO IMPROVE NURSING HOME SAFETY The White House has just announced a plan to improve the safety and quality of care in the nation’s nursing homes, aimed to protect seniors from an industry known for its lack of accountability. To learn more about this important and developing issue, be sure to read the full article.

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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

JULY 25, 2023

Next, he recognized the tragic losses that have occurred to loved ones because of preventable errors. Hospital-acquired infections, misdiagnoses, medication errors—these are process errors and have been significantly reduced by some healthcare systems. So the goals of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation must be implemented.

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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

JUNE 1, 2023

On the first day of the Summit, global patient safety leaders call for increased urgency in reducing preventable deaths. ABOUT THE PATIENT SAFETY MOVEMENT FOUNDATION In 2012, Joe Kiani founded the non-profit Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) to eliminate preventable medical errors in hospitals. Irvine, Calif.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

In Gallup’s most recent poll on the most honest and ethical professions in America, nurses, doctors, pharmacists and dentists ranked in the top 5, with nurses topping the list. But the situation still gets worse.

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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. suffer from a wrong-site surgery each week.

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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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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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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2019

Many technologies may be comforting in the immediate term, but could also be preventing innovation at the edge. I think a lot about fax machines in this way: yet providers are still highly dependent on faxing, as I’ve learned from people in my Twitter feed who are quick to remind me this. When is the right time to “jump the curve?”

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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

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

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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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

” Or conversely, “Hey, based on this, we saved you a trip to the cath lab, but let’s talk about your lipid management to prevent further issues down the road.” And then I began my career as a critical care nurse, and I started actually at York Hospital. Two, fun fact, I drove a 1985 Chevette in 2005.

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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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MARCH 1, 2023

This week emphasizes the vision of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation “Zero Preventable Patient Harm by 2030.” February is National Cancer Prevention Month and President Biden has this month reignited the “Cancer Moonshot.” The AEBP is available without charge to hospitals online.

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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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