Promoting patient safety and improving the quality of patient care
Tag: Patient Safety
The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety wishes you a happy and safe 4th of July!
To improve safety this weekend and throughout the year, this week’s must reads recommend the following actions: Continue reading “Weekly Must Reads in Patient Safety (July 3, 2015)”
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a star-rating system for the patient experience at more than 3,500 U.S. hospitals.
In an editorial on the CMS rating system, Lisa Allen, Ph.D. (chief patient experience officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine, director of service excellence, The Johns Hopkins Hospital) compares hospitals and hotels: Continue reading “What Level of Service Do You Expect from a Hospital?”
In this week’s must reads, we celebrate Stroke Awareness Month, nurses, and all of those working to improve patient safety.
May is Stroke Awareness Month
The American Stroke Association would like us all to know that May is Stroke Awareness Month: Continue reading “Weekly Must Reads in Patient Safety (May 1, 2015)”
It’s National Healthcare Quality Week and National Respiratory Care Week!
However, according to Pascal metrics, there is no reason to celebrate. Studies show that a third of patients are harmed in U.S. hospitals and the consequent financial burden of this harm may run to over $100 billion annually. Continue reading “Weekly Must Reads in Patient Safety (Oct 24, 2014)”
Patient monitoring seems to be the flavor of the day in this week’s articles and tweets … so, remember to monitor – Keep It On!
That said, better alarm management is needed to encourage more use of continuous electronic monitoring – could a woman’s death be due to alarm fatigue, as reported by Outpatient Surgery? Continue reading “Weekly Must Reads in Patient Safety (Oct 3, 2014)”
By Kenneth P. Rothfield, M.D., M.B.A., Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, Saint Agnes Hospital (Baltimore, MD), Lynn Razzano, RN, MSN, ONCC (Clinical Nurse Consultant, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety), and Michael Wong, JD (Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety)
It is often said that a death is meaningful if it serves as lessons for others to learn from and increase awareness so they “speak up” when found in a similar situation. So, what can be learned from the death of Joan Rivers? Continue reading “4 Lessons Learned from the Death of Joan Rivers”
With two articles driving most of the discussion social media this week—a Forbes article on alarm fatigue and an announcement of FDA approval for a new treatment for deep vein thrombosis (DVT)—we wanted to highlight a few articles readers might not have seen yet.
Have a good long weekend! Continue reading “Weekly Must Reads in Patient Safety (Aug 29, 2014)”
24×7 Magazine recently spoke with Michael Wong, JD, executive director for the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety about patient safety and goals for PPAHS.
As 24×7 reports, although PPAHS is currently only focused on a few key patient safety issues, these issues account for a great number of adverse events. Continue reading “PPAHS: Patient Safety First, Second, and Third”
by Gina Pugliese (Vice President, Premier Safety Institute)
In my post yesterday, I discussed the dangers of alarm fatigue. Alarm fatigue is considered the leading health technology hazard, according to the ECRI Institute’s top 10 health technology hazards.
And with 19 out of 20 hospitals (surveyed by the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety) ranking alarm fatigue as a top patient safety concern, it’s become an issue we need to address. And fast.