Editor’s Note: After a long hiatus, we are resuming the very popular “must reads in patient safety” featuring articles and research that we’ve been reading this past week.
Here are some articles and research that the team at the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety has been reading this week of February 26, 2024.
Healthcare Workforce Staffing is a Patient Safety Issue
Nurses in Oregon went on strike in protest over community health and safety, staffing, and care delays.
And, in the UK, the British Thoracic Society and the Primary Care Respiratory Society warned that staffing numbers will impact the respiratory care of patients saying “insufficient numbers of healthcare professionals from across disciplines to deliver integrated respiratory services.”
Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Management of Sepsis
Francois Ventura, MD (Division of Anesthesiology, Geneva University Hospitals) and his colleagues propose a framework for “conducting future clinically relevant translational biomarker studies for the diagnosis, prognosis, and management of sepsis, with the aim of identifying optimal indicators for infection, systemic inflammation response, organ dysfunction, and sepsis risk.”
What do you think that framework should look like?
For more on what Dr. Ventura, Michael Wong, JD (Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety) interviewed Dr. Ventura on the role of biomarkers in the role of biomarkers in the diagnosis of sepsis.
To watch Dr. Ventura’s presentation at the Congress and receive continuing medical education credits, please click here.