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HealthCare PSI Blog

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The official blog of the HealthCare PSI website, this blog covers the day's medical error headlines and focuses on problems with the Standard of Care.

• Added on: Dec 6th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: HealthCarePSI
• Listed in: Media Activism Health
• Tags: patient safety medical negligence u.s. hospitals never events preventable medical errors healthcare psi

Recent Posts

• Keeping Patients in the Dark

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 13:43 in healthcare, hospitals, preventable medical errors, hospitals and media, the blunt end

  I read a story this week by Elizabeth Cooney, Contributing Blogger to White Coat Notes, a daily medical feature of The Boston Globe. The point of this piece is that patients who were victims of medical errors tend to rate their care higher if they ...

• Cedars-Sinai: Just One More Teensy Complication

  Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 13:01 in hospital, patient safety, preventable medical errors, spotlight on cedars-sinai

  I've already written about the radiation overdose incident at Cedars-Sinai but the bad news just keeps trickling out of that institution, so it's time to talk about the latest wrinkle. Some of the 260 patients known to be exposed to radi...

• No Money in Healthcare?

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 05:24 in healthcare, patient safety, hospitals and media, the blunt end and the public trust

  I'm sure you followed the healthcare dog and pony show in Washington over the weekend.  I'm still (mostly) avoiding the topic of healthcare reform for one reason: it has absolutely nothing to do with patient care or patient safety. Our...

• Cameras Won\'t Fix This

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 11:55 in hospital, making headlines, patient safety, preventable medical errors

  The patient safety headlines have been dominated this week with news that Rhode Island Hospital was fined $150,000 after operating on yet another wrong body part -this makes five wrong site surgeries in the last two years. The state health departme...

• Meet Two Healthcare Heroes

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 05:34 in healthcare, hospitals, patient safety, preventable medical errors, health care heroes

  Most of the time on this blog I write about preventable medical error horror stories, bumbling patient safety organizations and corrupt Blunt End players. Kinda depressing. I'm happy to bring you some good news today. I found this story in ...

• Another Lame Idea

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 13:44 in patient safety, the joint commission, hospitals and media, the blunt end

  I didn't believe this when I saw it last Friday, but here's the link to the pdf file if you want to download it and spread the coloring joy. Yes, fellow patient safety crusaders, the Joint Commission got themselves a brand new coloring b...

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