PATIENT SAFETY
HealthcareAssociated Infections Patient Safety Webinar Available Through the Truax Group
The Truax Group, a healthcare consulting company that focuses on patient safety, is now offering a webinar on Healthcare-Associated Infections as one of its interactive patient safety training modules. "Since CMS announced that Medicare will no longer reimburse for certain potentially preventable complications, our most frequently requested services...The Patient Safety Group now offering the AHRQ Culture Survey
The Patient Safety Group has released web-based, inexpensive, turnkey software for implementing and reporting on the AHRQ Culture Survey. The Joint Commission's leadership standards for 2008 requires hospitals to 'evaluate the culture of safety'. The Culture Survey serves these requirements by allowing for easy input by hospital staff and instantaneous...www.medicalmalpracticecourt.com This list of 28 medical errors that should never happen is part of an article on MSNBC: More states shred bills for awful medical errors. The list is created by the National Quality Forum, a nonprofit health care safety agency, it includes: 1. Surgery on the wrong body part. 2. Surgery on the wrong patient. 3. Wrong surgical...
www.medicalmalpracticecourt.com Lack of Informed Consent occurs when the patient develops an injury during a medical procedure or operation that is a risk recognized by the medical community but undisclosed to the patient of the procedure and, had the patient been advised of that risk beforehand, the patient would not have consented to the treatment...
Consumers Advancing Patient Safety Launches Online Networking Resource
Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS) now offers an online resource at www.patientsafety.org where patients and healthcare providers can share information and collaborate to make patient care safer. "The CAPS web site is an essential tool to build a global network of consumer partners working to improve the safety of medicine," says...www.medicalmalpracticecourt.com A medical practitioner may also be legally liable if a patient does not give "informed consent" to a medical procedure that results in a harm to the patient, even if the procedure is performed properly. For example, if a doctor does not tell a patient that a surgical procedure has a 50% chance of causing paralysis, the...
Arrowsight Medical Launches Patient Safety Blog to Increase Awareness Conversation
Arrowsight Medical (Arrowsight.com) today launched Patient Safety Focus (http://PatientSafetyFocus.com), a comprehensive, online resource on patient safety programs, statistics and solutions, for healthcare industry professionals, media and consumers. The blog is being introduced on the occasion of Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 2-8), a national...Buying Drugs from Canada Now Comes with a New Level of Safety Assurance says DoctorSolve Internet Pharmacy Service
The American public needing affordable medications are afraid-afraid of buying drugs from outside their own borders that are improperly labeled or packaged, outdated or expired, contaminated or counterfeit. They're afraid because Big Pharma and the media tell them they should be. The onslaught of propaganda pumping fear into the hearts of the elderly...Medical Professionals Can Earn Money by Reporting Unidentifiable Patient Health Information at HealthLat.com
HealthLat.com (www.HealthLat.com), a consumer-driven patient safety monitoring company, has recently expanded its patent-pending HealthLat Patient Safety Report Program to physicians and other health care professionals. The program gathers, analyzes and sells non-identifiable patient health information, and shares the proceeds with its participants. "Aggregate...New Standards Developed for Procedural NonSurgical Ambulatory Facilities
Several patient safety issues and state regulatory initiatives in outpatient surgery throughout the nation have once again thrust facility accreditation into the news spotlight, and as a result, AAAASF has experienced an increase in demand for the accreditation of gastroenterology, endoscopy and fertility clinics. "The increased awareness of the...***Note This page is an Archieve of Publicly released information either through our company or another Press Release organization. We do not "fact check", "Support", nor "Dispute" any of the information provided to us. We are a distribution point and Historical press release research and search service. This information only represents the fact that at one point in time the release was distributed to 1000's of publications both online and off. PRNewsNow will not take sides in any personal or commercial disputes you have with the writer of this press release. We will defend its right to exist blindly and without regards to its political, commercial or personal implications.***
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