Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety

Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) is an advocacy group dedicated to improving patient health and safety. PPAHS seeks to advance key patient health and safety initiatives that significantly impact patient lives and to do so in a prescriptive and practical manner.

“A checklist would help to avoid simple but recurrent errors in packaging and programming the PCA.”

Dr. Richard Dutton, Executive Director, Anesthesia Quality Institute (on checklists)

“PCA errors certainly occur, both in programming and in delivery, but any published estimate is likely to be only the tip of the iceberg.”

Dr. Richard Dutton, Executive Director of the Anesthesia Quality Institute