Tag Archives: Patient Safety

Support for the Preventing Superbugs and Protecting Patient Act

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http://consumersunion.org/research/support-for-the-preventing-superbugs-and-protecting-patient-act/

Policy

Click to access CULetter.Support.PreventSuperbugsProtectPatientsAct.pdf

What You Don’t Know About Your Doctor Could Hurt You

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http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/health/doctors-and-hospitals/what-you-dont-know-about-your-doctor-could-hurt-you/index.htm

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Out-of-hospital births on the rise in U.S

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-homebirths-idUSKCN0WU1G1?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=27952388&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9LlCPrZhsgxd3BhQF2c_4Mwy3h5tW4r_yD4mRitjWlbPKGGBg8JXyF2c2wJoH-NwoVx4KbtTdIjCpZJNV6SV1Yiui4Cw&_hsmi=27952388

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PBS Frontline: Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria

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http://www.pbs.org/video/2365104403/

Antibiotic Resistance

http://www.pbs.org/video/2365089175/

http://www.pbs.org/video/2365540415/

Why Doctors Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Online Reviews

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https://hbr.org/2016/03/why-doctors-shouldnt-be-afraid-of-online-reviews?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29

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From Triple to Quadruple Aim: Care of the Patient Requires Care of the Provider

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http://www.annfammed.org/content/12/6/573.full?utm_source=State+of+Reform&utm_campaign=2fc34edc06-5+Things+Jan+%2802%29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_37897a186e-2fc34edc06-272256165

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/15/11157552/medical-errors-stories-mistakes

Superbugs follow 1 in 4 seniors from the hospital to post-acute care settings, study finds

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http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/superbugs-follow-1-4-seniors-hospital-post-acute-care-settings-study-finds/2016-03-14?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=%257B%257Blead.Id%257D%257D&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRons6%252FOde%252FhmjTEU5z14ukkX6a2lMI%252F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DSsdiNK%252BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk

C Difficile Bacteria

By the time they leave PAC, 1 in 3 test positive for drug-resistant organisms

Depression: A silent epidemic for nurses

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http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/depression-silent-epidemic-nurses/2016-03-04?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRons6%252FOde%252FhmjTEU5z14ukkX6a2lMI%252F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DSsdiNK%252BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk

Nurses suffer from depression at twice rate of general population

C. Diff: Deadly Infection on the Rise in U.S. Hospitals

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http://www.consumerreports.org/doctors-hospitals/c-diff-deadly-infection-on-rise-us-hospitals/

C. Diff. Image: Washing hands with soap.

Drug-resistant superbugs: CDC urges three-pronged attack to fight HAIs

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http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/drug-resistant-superbugs-cdc-urges-three-pronged-attack-fight-hais/2016-03-04?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRons6%2FOde%2FhmjTEU5z14ukkX6a2lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DSsdiNK%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk

Reports 1 in 7 catheter and surgery-related infections are caused by 1 of 6 bacteria resistant to antibiotics