Missouri Activity (30 items)
The Missouri Department of Health has agreed to change its policy of purging hospital infection data that was over a year old. Now consumers can view hospital infection prevention performance over years rather than just having access to one year worth of performance data.
Siting costs to keep the old data, the Missouri Health Department is deleting infection data from past years making it impossible to see if a hospitals infection prevention record improves or declines over time.
Tragic story of a young girl who was suffocated in a bean bag chair at a hospital that had been warned by state and federal regulators that patients weren't safe.
Hear from a journalist about how difficult it is to find information about a serious medical error. No matter what source you turn to, you are left with few answers.
"Hospitals either aren't disciplining doctors who have had problems, or are finding ways to avoid federal reporting rules."
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.
Major drug makers are pushing for online advertising flexibility. Congress is considering new advertising laws that will limit on line ad claims that exaggerate drug capabilities and eliminating the corporate tax deductions for drug promotion.
Despite efforts to prevent medication errors, mix-ups like this are occurring across the country with alarming frequency.
Missouri released surgical infection data for all hospitals for the first time in the state’s history.
Because of a father's incredible love and determination to see some good follow his son's hospital nightmare, Missouri will gain what is considered "the most significant piece of consumer protection" adopted by the Legislature in recent memory.
Raymond Wagner Jr., an executive with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, draws on his son's personal experience to help Missouri legislators pass a bill requiring the reporting of hospital-acquired infection rates to the public. The bill is awaiting Gov. Bob Holden's signature. (CU's Lisa McGiffert quoted.)
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 Missouri's efforts to alter its payment system for preventable hospital acquired conditions and events that harm patients.
WHY IS THIS LINK SO FAR BEHIND IN OUR STATE'S IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTH CARE? IS NO REPRESENTATIVE IN OUR STATE HOUSE INTERESTED IN THIS SUBJECT? NIXON IS NOW OUR GOVERNOR!
My deceased RN-Mom would be turning over in her grave over this mess!
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What seems like the biggest FAIL of common sense to me is when medical personnel wear scrubs outside in public! What a great way to bring "bad stuff" INTO the hospital or medical facility and "bad stuff" back into the population! How easy is it to change your clothes???? NO MORE SCRUBS IN PUBLIC!!! Easy!
Please help stop hospital infections.
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 »
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