Minnesota Activity (41 items)
A 300-pound sedated patient who was awaiting a routine procedure fell off an operating table and later died. Accidents like these should be prevented before it's too late.
This Community Catalyst blog discusses the Physician Payments Sunshine Act passed in the health care reform legislation. It creates a national public website where drug and device companies will report payments and gifts to doctors. Consumers will be able to search the site.
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.
New Jersey legislation would give public hospital-specific information on medical errors.
Users of WhyNotTheBest.org can now search for and compare data from more than 900 hospitals on the incidence of central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs)—one of the most lethal hospital-acquired complications. The data show wide variation in CLABSI incidence, in spite of strong evidence on how to prevent them. This data is made possible through a partnership among The Commonwealth Fund, The Leapfrog Group, and Consumers Union.
Plans about what the states are supposed to be doing to eliminate hospital acquired infections.
Link to map that highlights antimicrobial resistance issues at the state level.
Learn about Minnesota's efforts to alter its payment system for preventable hospital acquired conditions and events that harm patients.
Minnesota HealthScores is a non-profit Web site that provides information on the quality of health care in Minnesota and surrounding areas.
Testimony by Jason George, legislative and political organizer for the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 49, before the MN House Health Policy Committee on hospital-acquired infections.
Minnesota releases adverse events report released. The report identifies 27 different “medical errors” (such as operating on the wrong part of the body or wrong patient) and “adverse events” (such as patient falls, suicide, and abduction), it does not include hospital-acquired infections. A new bill filed in the MN legislature (HF 87) will require inclusion of hospital infections in the future.
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 »
My wife's life was shortened by hepatitis C which she contracted at a clinic in Minnesota. I can give you proof. When my wife arrived at the clinic, after multiple tests, it was determined that she had no physical problem, but needed psychiatric treatment. (NOTE: No elevated liver enzymes.) As we were awaiting a taxi to depart a month later, three doctors suddenly appeared (why THREE doctors?). They said her liver enzymes were "slightly elevated", and when we got back home to Clearwater, FL, we should have them checked. A week later she was diagnosed with hepatitis C, and later died of liver failure as a result. Read More »
In 2002, I had what was supposed to be simple hysterectomy and ended up getting my colon poked with an instrument. They couldn't find the hole and closed me up, and then I got septic and came so close to dying they called my family down to say goodbye to me.
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Kim Witczak and Eric Swan take the fight for good information about prescription drugs very seriously.
In 2003, Kim's husband and Eric's brother-in-law, Woody, filled a new prescription from his family doctor for the antidepressant, Zoloft to reduce insomnia and "help manage the stress of a new job." Woody had just taken a position as Vice President of Sales with a start up company about 2 months prior.
After 5 weeks of being on the drug--Woody took his own life. He had no history of mental illness, depression or any other problem. Woody was not warned about the need to be closely monitored when first going on the drug or when the dose was increased...
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