Promoting patient safety and improving the quality of patient care
Category: Must Reads
Articles the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) have been reading the week of July 2, 2018 ask us to consider 3 patient safety ideas to implement.
#1 Patient Safety to Implement – Remember that Some Patients Need Opioids
In the nation’s battle to curtail the use of opioids, there are patients who need them.
Articles PPAHS have been reading the week of June 18, 2018 emphasize these equations for patient safety.
#1 Equation for Patient Safety: Nurses = Patient Safety
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What do environmental concerns, pressure ulcers, C-sections, the value of a human life, and opioids have in common?
They are the themes in the articles we have been reading the past two weeks of May 14 and 21, 2018.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that causes obstructed airflow from the lungs. Although cigarette smoking is often the cause of COPD, a recent study led by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) reminds us that COPD may be caused by other factors.
Articles we have been reading this past week of April 23, 2018 discuss eight ways to improve patient safety and health outcomes.
#1 Way to Improve Patient Safety and Health Outcomes- Use Opioid-Sparing Strategies and More Precise Monitoring
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Articles we have been reading this past week of April 16, 2018 ask us to reconsider how we think about patient safety.
#1 – COPD prevalence is nearly double in rural areas compared to metropolitan areas
The risk of COPD is nearly double in rural areas compared to that in urban areas, according to CDC’s Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report.
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Articles we have been reading this past week of February 12, 2018 provide 5 suggestions for improving the health of babies.
PPAHS has been following the case of Amber Athwal, who suffered brain damage after undergoing dental surgery to extract some of her teeth.
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The articles we have been reading this past week of February 5, 2018 raise an interesting question – Can legislation stop the opioid epidemic?
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3 actions that aren’t being taken to stop the opioid epidemic
#1 Action Not Being Taken to Stop the Opioid Epidemic – Government action
Government is not doing enough to end the opioid epidemic, according to a CNN article interviewing Patrick Kennedy, who is on the US president’s opioid commission.
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Reading about the ongoing coverage of the opioid epidemic this past week has prompted the following questions – do you agree or disagree?
Should newborns with opioid withdrawal be kept together with their mothers?
Newborns suffering from opioid withdrawal have traditionally been separated from their mothers.
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The PPAHS team has been reading many must read articles for battling the opioid epidemic this week.
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