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Articles on Health Care Error
Medical errors cost US $8.8B, result in 238,337 potentially
preventable deaths: HealthGrades study
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/h-mec040308.php
Medical Errors Costing U.S. Billions. Mistakes resulted in
238,337 preventable deaths from 2006-08, survey finds.
www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/614317.html?
Medicare Won't Pay
for Hospital Errors
AOL HEALTH NEWS:
http://news.aol.com/health/story/_a/medicare-wont-pay-for-hospital-errors/20070819074009990001
PatientsLikeMe: Online communities seek
experience-based medicine
www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/magazine/23patients-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Rembrandt's
PR and Writing Blog for Startup Success – PR
Success of Maureens Mission
www.shopfloorblog.com/2008/03/rembrandts-pr-2.html
In honor of a son who died too soon. Mother
helps others through boy's legacy
www.charleston.net/news/2008/apr/07/in_honor_son_who_died_too_soon36338/
Good
Doctors Spot Mistakes, Save Lives
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20789360/site/newsweek/page/0/
Doctors Who Do Harm
Good physicians know the bad ones in
their midst. Why don't they point
fingers?
Reader's Digest, March 2008
www.rd.com/content/printContent.do?contentId=53670
Turning a child's death into hope:
Parents aim to honor son with a hospital
www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-flfsebastian0309sbmar09,0,7535816.story
Connecticut
Business News Journal
Heal Thyself?
Fines point to
woes at state's hospitals
www.conntact.com/article_page.lasso?id=41757
Many lawsuits against pharmacies settled
in silence
by Erik Brady and Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY
www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2008-02-13-pharmacy-errors-secrecy_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
Arizona Medical Board's hands-off
approach to relapsed addict physicians
is endangering patients
www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-03-06/news/arizona-medical-board-s-hands-off-approach-to-relapsed-addict-physicians-is-endangering-patients
Poll:
Majority of Jerseyans see big problems
with health care. Medical
errors raise fears of 'crisis' in state
www.nj.com/starledger/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1204781749180230.xml&coll=1
Forbes.com Cover Story
Bad Medicine
www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0310/086_print.html
Dartmouth Medicine
Making Choice an Option
http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/fall07/print/choice.php
Family awarded $340,000 in botched
surgery
The victim's family first filed their $3
million lawsuit in 2002. The case went
to trial three times. www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/144870
Hectic
shifts have nurses worried. Nurses and
patients alike say in a survey that low
staffing jeopardizes quality care in
Minnesota. The nurses' union is
proposing legislation to address
workloads.www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_7833721?nclick_check=1
CNN The Empowered Patient, Should I sue
my doctor?
By Elizabeth Cohen
www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/01/09/ep.suing.docs/index.html
Clear results, disputed method. Ruling
on research endangers patients, doctors say.
www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.checklist12jan12,0,6565270.story?coll=bal_news_education_k12_promo
France best, U.S. worst in preventable
death ranking http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080108/hl_nm/deaths_rankings_dc_1
Medical industry plans to rate payment
history
www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-wed_medfico_0102jan02,0,4105866.story
Hospital safety reports past due.
Officials debate reasons for three studies'
delays
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-hospital_bd06jan06,1,7606956.story
Measure born of couple's grief to
become law
www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/31/measure-born-of-couples-grief-to-become-law/
Many Errors
by Medical Residents Caused by Teamwork
Breakdowns, Lack of Supervision. Press
Release, October 22, 2007. Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville,
MD.
http://www.ahrq.gov/news/press/pr2007/teambreakpr.htm
Terminal
Condition by
Stephanie and
Ralph Speken
www.med-malpractice.com/terminalconditionface.htm
The Death of
Mark Tsvok: Patients in the Dark by
Hilary Waldman
www.courant.com/news/local/hc-tsvokdoc1014.artoct14,0,1592569.story
Hospital Remembers Boy's Death:
www.courant.com/news/local/hc-tsvokside1014.artoct14,0,5612146.story
Hospital Admits Error Caused 3-Year-Old's
Death
www.wesh.com/news/14428893/detail.html
Father Hopes Erin's
Story Will Save
Others
www2.tbo.com/content/2007/sep/14/father-hopes-erins-story-will-save-others/?life-health
New England Journal of Medicine Vol 357
(10):960-963 September 6, 2007
Doctors try new word:
Sorry.
Admitting mistakes not just right thing to do, medical
community finds it may prevent malpractice suits
www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-apologies_bd19aug19,0,2991957.story
New York City Puts Hospital
Error Data Online
www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/nyregion/07hospital.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
Teaming Up to Prevent
'Crashes'
Some Hospitals Give Patients the Power to Get Extra
Help, Stat
By Shirley S. Wang, Special to The Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/31/AR2007083101788.html
Changes hit nursing board
after blistering report
www.theregalcourier.com/news/story.php?story_id=118903378008254100
New law will make it easier
to look up malpractice records
www.charlotte.com/162/story/253713.html
An order to release
Medicare files might help patients choose physicians.
Medical experts say the records don't tell the whole
story.
by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Los Angeles Times Staff
Writer
www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-doctors30aug30,1,7102255.story
Medical Justice targets
online defamation of docs
The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area
Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC
www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2007/08/27/daily19.html
41 nations top U.S. life
expectancy
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2003832640_life12.html
Give it to us straight, doc
www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0823edit1aug23,0,4582879.story
We're Not Your Enemy:
An Appeal from a Consumer
to Re-imagine Tort Reform
by
Susan S. Sheridan, MIM, MBA and
Martin J. Hatlie, JD
July / August 2007
www.psqh.com/julaug07/tortreform.html
Advancing Patient
Safety through State Reporting Systems -
Perspective
by Jill
Rosenthal, MPH
www.webmm.ahrq.gov/perspective.aspx?perspectiveID=43
How to Size Up Your Hospital
Improved Public Databases Let People Compare Practices
and Outcomes; The Importance of Looking Past the Numbers
by Theo Francis
Hospital sanctioned $1.3 million
over lawsuit
"A
Parkersburg hospital has been
ordered to pay a $1.3 million
sanction in a medical
malpractice case for allegedly
violating court orders and other
misconduct..."
by
The Associated Press
No Minor Mistake: Doctor's
Error, Your Expense
Preventable medical errors cost employers billions
of dollars a year. Now, some firms are standing up to
the medical establishment, saying they'll refuse to pay
for botched treatment and demanding high standards of
care and safety.
by
Jeremy Smerd,
www.workforce.com/section/02/feature/24/97/66/index.html
The Informed Patient
by Laura Landro
Patients, Families Take Up The Cause of Hospital Safety
Grass-Roots Movement Offers Support, Information to People
Affected by Medical Errors
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118048050393817811.html?mod=home_health_right
Is Your Surgeon Scamming You?
Patients
back WHO medical safety rules
www.upi.com/Consumer_Health_Daily/Briefing/2007/05/02/patients_back_who_medical_safety_rules
U.N. agency launches effort
against medical errors
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070502/hl_nm/mistakes_dc_4
My Mother's Haunting End:
By Richard Pretorius,
Washington Post - Email:
rpretorius@aim.com
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/04/AR2007050402554_pf.html
Transparency provides better
look at health care by
Steve Sternberg,
USA TODAY
Includes State
websites that report quality data
www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-05-22-death-rates-side_N.htm
Eye To Eye: Donald Berwick
Dr. Donald Berwick, the president and CEO of the
Institute for Healthcare Improvement, talks with Katie Couric about his
crusade to make hospitals safer for patients. Watch the video at
www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2440764n
Patient
Safety Study | Nearly 250,000 deaths could have been prevented, report
says.
There were about 1.16 million reported incidents between 2003 and 2005,
by Julius A. Karash @ The Kansas City Star
www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/17012714.htm
Hospital simulators offer real learning opportunity
Health students
get chance to test skills
by
Liv Osby HEALTH WRITER,
losby@greenvillenews.com
"Lewis
Blackman was just 15 when he died after surgery at
the Medical University of South Carolina, one of
thousands of Americans who die as a result of
medical error every year.
On Wednesday, a
plaque in his memory was unveiled at a center in
Greenville that's part of a statewide program aimed
at improving patient safety, a program that will
bear his name.
The Greenville
Healthcare Simulation Center at Greenville Memorial
Hospital will give future health care professionals
a chance to learn on simulators before turning their
hand to live patients."
To read the full
article:
www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703150315
U.S. Department of
Justice · Office of Justice Programs
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Medical Malpractice Insurance Claims in Seven
States, 2000-2004
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/mmicss04.htm
Backfire at
Boeing: Misadventure in High-Performance
Health Care
How the
aerospace company's effort to institute
performance-based health care raised the ire
of workers and physicians and landed its
insurer in legal hot water.
www.workforce.com/section/02/feature/24/80/93/index.html
Mother campaigns
for malpractice disclosure
by
Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News
www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5446974,00.html
"Physician Malpractice Database Includes Indiana :
Golden,
Colo.--HealthGrades, the nation’s leading
independent health care ratings company, has
compiled the first national database of physician
malpractice records available to the public.
Detailed information on medical malpractice
judgments, settlements and arbitration awards
against physicians in fifteen states is now
available on-line, at
www.healthgrades.com,
as part of HealthGrades’ physician quality reports
for consumers."
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Source: Inside Indiana Business
www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=22497
Healthy Savings On Hospital Bills: Advocates Who
Find Overcharges And Hidden Charges Can Pare
Thousands Off Sky-High Bills
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/26/eveningnews/main2610217.shtml
Ritter signs bill protecting medical whistle-blowers
Extending the Cure -
The Story of Michael and Mark
Bennett
www.extendingthecure.org/downloads/ETC_Feature_Story_Bennett.pdf
Veterans
hospitals received gold seal / Joint Commission awarded
certification after VA withheld info about poor care
by STELLA M. HOPKINS. For article contact at
704-358-5173 or via
email:
shopkins@charlotteobserver.com
S.C. hospitals launching patient safety
initiatives
New measures are aimed at making more
information available to the public
www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/16562686.htm
Family has hopes girl's autopsy will answer questions:
Backlash at bills for
medical mistakes:
Firms tired of
paying for low-quality care
By Bruce Japsen,
www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0611160125nov16,0,4190587.story?coll=chi-business-hed
First Person: To really learn about medical
errors, turn off the PowerPoint
Institute for Healthcare Improvement's forum enlivened by real people's
stories
By: Andis Robeznieks / HITS staff writer
www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061218/FREE/312180001/-1/ForumRss
Hospitals aim to do less harm
Building on success in preventing deaths, new goal is to reduce injuries
by 5 million
By Mark Johnson
www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=541126
Victims of Malpractice Have Limited Options
www.nwaonline.net/letters/#Victims_of_Malpractice_Have_Limited_Options
Independent probes
by coroners urged
www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/16562276.htm
"It's a new day" as secrecy fades
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003503151_yourcourts31m.html
By Ken Armstrong, Justin Mayo and Steve Miletich
What ails
hospitals is silence
www.denverpost.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?articleId=5149506&siteId=36
Doctor's bankruptcy filing provides
malpractice haven
www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/business/epaper/2006/12/24/m1a_bankruptdoc_1224.html
Doctors: Focus on care, not tort reform,
www.hdonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061221/OPINION/612210301/1034
Teaching Hospitals How to Listen
One Woman Struggled to Convince Administrators That Staff
Responsiveness -- or Lack of It -- Affects Patient Outcome
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/08/AR2006120801085.html
The Tennessean Saturday, 12/16/06
No matter where patients go, chip lets hospital know Surveillance draws
praise and worry
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061216/NEWS07/612160347/1024/NEWS
www.theeveningbulletin.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17580420&BRD=2737&PAG=461
Denenberg: Omitted Reasons Why The Health-Care System Is So Expensive
By: Herb Denenberg, Special To The Bulletin
Putting medical errors under the microscope
www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-10-11-patient-safety-reference_x.htm?POE=click-refer
1st annual report for the New Jersey Patient Safety Initiative provides a
summary of the 2005 activities of the Patient Safety Initiative and the reported
events/related RCAs for that year. The New Jersey reporting system is based on
the NQF "never events." This Patient Safety Initiative web site includes a
link to the report, newsletters and other materials. www.nj.gov/health/hcqo/ps
Duke funds to focus on patient care,
safety -
$21 million will help
reduce errors
www.greenvillenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060820/NEWS05/608200329&SearchID=73254637076144&template=printart
How To Fix The System by Donald Berwick
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1186717,00.html
Executive Order: Promoting Quality and Efficient Health Care in
Federal Government Administered or Sponsored Health Care
Programs
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060822-2.html
Transparency in Health Care: The
Time Has Come
By The Commonweath Fund President Karen Davis, Ph.D., and Fund Senior
Program Officer Sara R. Collins
"One of the defining characteristics of U.S.
health care markets is their lack of transparency. More and better
information on the costs and quality of health services could
improve the system—by enabling providers to benchmark their
performance against their peers, allowing private insurers and
public programs to reward quality and efficiency, and helping
patients make informed choices about their care.
Transparency could also level the playing field.
The widespread practice of charging patients different prices for
the same care is inherently unequal, especially when the uninsured
are charged more than others."
To read the complete article:
www.cmwf.org/aboutus/aboutus_show.htm?doc_id=365285&#doc365285
Malpractice cap hasn't lowered premiums: State pain and suffering law
took effect a year ago
www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006609180317
Lawyers sue over doctors'
licensing rule
THE GENERAL AND THE BEAST: Bad medicine
A sloppy, inefficient medical system costs lives and billions of dollars
Ron French / The Detroit News
www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060928/LIFESTYLE03/609280388/1148
Demonstration to protest preventable medical errors
www.times-news.com/opinion/local_story_225111057.html
Timmons verdict overturned
By Mike Linn
www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060923/NEWS02/609230360/1009
Patient Safety
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More than five years after the Institute of Medicine report, "To
Err Is Human," put patient safety on the agenda at health care
institutions nationwide, there have been significant
improvements in quality. But Paul M. Schyve's perspective this
month suggests that it is going to take real commitment to reach
the next, critical stage of improvement: a "patient safety
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