The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS), an advocacy group of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, healthcare organizations and patient safety advocacy groups, recently released four essentials for patient safety. These four essentials for patient safety were recently discussed on a webinar on reducing adverse drug events and harm associated with postoperative opioid pain management […]
May 10, 2013
by Sean Power
by Sean Power Last week, the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety presented two cases in which health care facilities reduced PCA-related adverse drug events with continuous electronic monitoring. Experts estimate that anywhere from 600,000 to 2,000,000 PCA errors occur each year. As Dr. Richard Dutton, Executive Director of the Anesthesia Quality Institute, states, “PCA […]
May 6, 2013
by Sean Power
Earlier today, the popular healthcare blog The Doctor Weighs In featured an article by the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety on the benefits of safety checklists. The article calls attention to five benefits of safety checklists in healthcare settings: Checklists provide a sense of confidence that you’ve taken all the right steps. Checklists are […]
May 2, 2013
by Michael Wong
A recent study of almost 400,000 pregnancies reveals risk factors for blood clots in pregnant and postnatal woman. In the study published in the American Society of Hematology journal Blood, researchers analyzed the pregnancies of women aged between 15 and 44 between January 1995 and July 2009. The study “Risk Factors for First Venous Thromboembolism […]
April 24, 2013
by Michael Wong
US Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN), Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Chief Deputy Whip, recently urged the US House of Representatives to work to prevent patient deaths. To view the CSPAN video, please click here. 98,000 people died from preventable deaths in 1998. “In 1998, statistics show that about 98,000 people a year died […]
May 16, 2013
by Michael Wong
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