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Research Finds More Electronic Interference in Hospitals

June 24, 2008
"Hospital hallways are covered with warnings to silence mobile phones, which can interfere with medical equipment. It appears other devices commonly used in hospitals might have the same effect on critical-care medical equipment, new research suggests."—USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/

Study: Electronic Medical Records Improve Care But Docs Don't Want to Spend the Money

June 19, 2008
"The findings aren't new, but the sheer size of the study confirms what earlier research suggested.

Docs know they provide better care, faster, when they switch from paper to electronic medical records. They just don't want to spend the money to heal more patients and kill fewer."—The Dallas Morning News: http://techblog.dallasnews.com/

Medical Litter: Device Debris Poses Serious Risk

June 16, 2008
"A dozen years after Pamela Jones had surgery on her right knee, the White Plains, Md., woman learned why the pain continued long after the wound had healed: A doctor left a 2-inch scalpel blade inside her leg."—MSNBC.com: http://www.msnbc.msn.com

Children's Hospital Make Too Many Mistakes, Report Says

June 2, 2008
"Hospitalized children suffer too many infections and other preventable complications that extend hospital stays and cost millions, according to a study released today.

Researchers found that some complications occurred in up to 4 percent of children treated at 38 children's hospitals nationwide, including St. Louis Children's Hospital. Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center and St. John's Mercy Children's Hospital were not included in the study."—The Wall Street Journal: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news

Bill Requires Hospitals to Report Infections

May 30, 2008
"California hospitals would be required to step up prevention of drug-resistant infections and, for the first time, report any such cases to health authorities under a bill that passed the state Senate this week."—San Fransisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/

More Health Care May Not Always Be Better

May 30, 2008
"Too much medical care could be harmful to your health.

That's what researchers concluded after examining the nations' hospitals and the care patients receive. Some hospitals and some areas of the country give patients more aggressive care -- meaning more tests, longer hospital stays and more procedures -- than others. And the extra treatment doesn't always translate to longer or better lives."—Seattle Post-Intelligencer: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com

Are Your Medical Records at Risk?

April 29, 2008
"When doctors are freed from commercial pressure, how well do they perform?

When it comes to protecting the privacy of patients' computerized information, the main threat the health-care industry faces isn't from hackers, but from itself."—The Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com

Physicians Fixate On Diagnosis, Neglect Treatment

April 20, 2008
"When doctors are freed from commercial pressure, how well do they perform?

We've grown accustomed to scapegoating pharmaceutical companies for health care ills. The implication is that if left alone by money-grubbing drug companies and health insurers, physicians make the right decisions on behalf of their patients.

Not so fast. It turns out that improving the quality of health care has only a little to do with drug companies. The real trouble is that doctors - somewhat paradoxically - are simply not focused on actually treating disease."—Dallas Morning News: http://www.dallasnews.com

Military Medical Malpractice: Seeking Recourse

April 20, 2008
"Outrage over a recent spate of incidents spurs fresh efforts to overturn the Feres doctrine, a 1950 Supreme Court decision denying active-duty service members the right to sue over medical errors."—Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com

Health Insurers Quit Covering Hospitals' Medical Screw-Ups

April 14, 2008
"You've no doubt had the experience of paying for car repairs that were done wrong. Not only did you pay for the faulty repair, you also paid to fix the error.

Health insurers have faced the same problem, paying for medical mistakes and the consequences of those mistakes.

Led by the federal government, they're putting an end to the practice, refusing to pay for a range of medical errors."—CNN: http://www.cnn.com

Study: Tool to Identify Medication-Related Harm in US Children's Hospitals

April 1, 2008
"Adverse drug event rates in hospitalized children are substantially higher than previously described. Most adverse drug events resulted in temporary harm, and 22% were classified as preventable. Only 3.7% were identified by using traditional voluntary reporting methods. Our pediatric-focused trigger tool is effective at identifying adverse drug events in inpatient pediatric populations."—Pediatrics: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org

Study Finds Many Patients Dissatisfied With Hospitals

March 29, 2008
"Many hospital patients are dissatisfied with some aspects of their care and might not recommend their hospitals to friends and relatives, the federal government said Friday as it issued ratings for most of the nation's hospitals, based on the first uniform national survey of patients."—New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com

Dennis Quaid Recounts Twins' Drug Ordeal

March 16, 2008
"Chances are you probably know someone who has died, or nearly died, because of medical mistakes in a hospital. It's much more common than most people realize, and if it can happen to the children of a movie star, at one of the finest hospitals in the country, it can happen to anyone. "—U.S. News: http://health.usnews.com

Study Finds Doctors Not Reporting Medical Mistakes

January 15, 2008
"Almost two-thirds of doctors say they are willing to report medical errors, but many of them just don't do it, a new study finds."—U.S. News: http://health.usnews.com

Doctors Unlikely to Report Peers Who Make Mistakes

December 6, 2007
"Nearly half of doctors may be more likely to protect their colleagues than their patients, according to a recent survey by researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)."—The Harvard Crimson: http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521147

Organ Patients' Spread of HIV Probed

November 14, 2007
"Federal and local officials are investigating whether four Chicago patients who contracted HIV from organ transplants could have passed on the disease during the months when they were unaware of their infections, health officials said Tuesday."—The Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/

Doctor Who Reportedly Operated On West Had Previous Malpractice Suits

November 13, 2007
"The plastic surgeon who reportedly operated on rapper Kanye West's mother before she died faced two malpractice suits that ended in payouts and was arrested twice for driving under the influence, according to state records obtained Tuesday."—AP Features: http://www.consumeraffairs.com

A Framework for Health Care Organizations to Develop and Evaluate a Safety Scorecard

November, 2007
"The demand to improve patient safety is increasing within health care organizations. Boards of trustees have a fiduciary responsibility to ensure patient safety, and senior management is often charged with evaluating and improving patient safety. External agencies such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Leapfrog Group, and the Joint Commission have developed measures to evaluate patient safety and quality of care."—JAMA- U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, AHRQ: http://psnet.ahrq.gov/resource.aspx?resourceID=6230

Mistakes Hospitals Don't Want You to See

October 23, 2007
"Over the past year, hospitals in Washington left ‘foreign objects' in 36 surgery patients. And 21 people got surgery on the wrong body parts."—The Seattle Times: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com

 

 

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