Iowa Activity (27 items)
This survey was created for patients who have experienced medical harm, their loved ones and their advocates. This survey was created by the Empowered Patient Coalition and we have jointly published this survey on our websites. This survey is designed to answer questions that are important to patients. This is a way for patients to report their experience as they have lived it, and to know that their report will be counted.The Empowered Patient Coalition will be entering the events annonymously on a map so you can see your error and others in your state by clciking on the map.
The State of Iowa does not require public reporting of hospital infection rates, leaving patients in the dark.
Report from a collaboration of health care providers in Iowa claims decreases in infection rates but fails to provide details by hospital. Reporting is voluntary so not all hospitals have provided information.
Links to hospital safety information in Iowa.
In a scolding report, the nation’s most influential medical advisory group said that doctors should stop taking much of the money, gifts and free drug samples that they routinely accept from drug and device companies. Supports Grassley/Kohl legislation legislation that would require drug and device makers to publicly disclose all payments made to doctors.
The Iowa Republican, in a series of hearings and investigations, has focused on financial ties between the drug industry, doctors and academic institutions.
Des Moines hospital posts rates of hospital infection and patient falls, two common medical harm events.
Report from a collaboration of health care providers in Iowa claims decreases in infection rates but fails to provide details by hospital. Reporting is voluntary so not all hospitals have provided information.
View hospital-specific rankings for quality indicators for chronic illnesses based on the Dartmouth Atlas research.
View hospital-specific survey results on how Iowans rate their care on ten Health and Human Services quality measures.
I agree that all errors need to be exposed and corrective action put in place to prevent future ocurances.
My 84-year-old Mother recently fell out of bed in the hospital and has an airborne lung disease, possibly from the hospital (she rarely goes out or has visitors other than a few family members).
I have no comment
I took my husband to the local Knoxville hospital ER a few years ago for stomach flu. They started a IV, and sent him home after 3 hours. At the injection site, he had a horrible infection that took him many Dr visits and lots of medicine and pain to clear up. Really scary.
More than 290,000 surgical site infections occur in U.S. hospitals each year. Patients who acquire infections from surgery spend, on average, an additional 6.5 days in the hospital, are five times more likely to be readmitted after discharge, and twice as likely to die.
Surgery patients are at risk for infection because surgical incisions create a pathway for germs to enter the body. Maintaining a sterile environment in the operating room is therefore critical to protect patients from being contaminated with bacteria, which can lead to infection.
How well is your hospital, state and the nation as a whole are performing on three key practices that help prevent infections during surgery? Find out here »
I was explaining to the doctor that I was having some problems breathing and catching my breath, and also I had broken out in hives. The good old doctor told me that I was going through postpartum stress. So he treated me for that, but that was not the problem. Read More »
My Mom, Joan Clayton, went to her regular doctor in August of 2007 with bladder problems. Instead of referring her on to an urologist when the symptoms did not improve, they kept trying different creams, antibiotics, powders, etc. She saw 3 different doctors, 5 different times, over a period of 4 months, after which she figured she had a prolapsed bladder and would have to live with it.
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