Safe Patient Project

Editorial: Medical Mistakes

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:46:35 -0600

New Jersey legislation would give public hospital-specific information on medical errors.

NY Comptroller finds many hospitals underreport medical errors

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:43:18 -0600

A comprehensive study issued today by the Office of the Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., found that many New York City hospitals substantially underreport �adverse events� to the New York State Department of Health (DOH).

Raise your hand if you've had a hospital-acquired infection

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:32:14 -0600

More people know about hospital acquired infections and medical errors than you might think, and not just from watching Oprah.

User-Generated Content: Med Errors

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:26:08 -0600

Do you have a comment or a link you'd like to share about medical errors? Post it here by using the form below.

Watch these personal stories -- Quality Care Saves Lives!

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:50:44 -0600

I�d like to point you to four brave patients, who debuted their videos to lawmakers at the Massachusetts State House and encouraged them to take an active role to improve patient safety.

Medical Mistakes show on Oprah

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:49:59 -0600

Did you catch the Oprah Winfrey Show on Tuesday about medical mistakes? She featured actor Dennis Quaid who recalled the series of hospital errors that nearly killed his newborn twins after they were given one thousand times the amount of the blood-thinning drug Heparin�twice.

2009 State Legislation (PDF)

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:42:09 -0600

This chart details hospital infection reporting and other patient safety bills being considered by state legislatures in 2009.

Medical community collaborates to cut medication errors and infections

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:01:52 -0600

A group of Ohio business leaders and 24 hospitals has launched what it hopes will become a statewide effort to reduce hospital medication errors and infections. Solutions for Patient Safety, as the effort is called, takes place as the state is preparing to publish hospital quality data, including some infection rates, on the Web for consumers.

CMS decisions on non-payment for surgical errors

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:07:56 -0600

It's official. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will no longer pay for surgery in which certain �never events� occur: wrong surgery, wrong patient, wrong body part.

NYT calls for doctors to be included in Medicare non-payment rules

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:15:19 -0600

The New York Times came out Sunday with a strong call for making the new Medicare rule to stop paying for care needed after hospitals harm their patients apply to physicians too, stating the current policy lets "doctors off scot-free."

Actor, cancer survivor talks about being a �bad� patient

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:35:13 -0600

�Sex and the City� actor, Evan Handler, had it hard enough fighting leukemia in his early adulthood, and now he�s speaking out about his experience with medical errors and life after cancer.

Medicare won't foot the bill for medical errors

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:09:45 -0600

Effective today, Medicare will stop compensating hospitals for the additional costs to treat patients who suffered from certain preventable infections and errors due to bad medical care.

You Score Higher Marks than Doctors

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:10:33 -0600

According to new FDA data, consumers like you make up the majority of drug adverse event reports submitted, replacing physicians.

Like Night and Day - Shedding Light on Off-Hours Care

Tue, 20 May 2008 16:25:00 -0600

The consequences of service deficiencies during off-hours include higher mortality and readmission rates, more surgical complications, and more medical errors. Given the health care industry's renewed focus on ensuring patient safety and providing high-quality medical care, why hasn't the situation changed at the "other hospital"?

Many in NJ are medical errors victims

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:53:21 -0600

More than a third of New Jersey residents surveyed say they or a family member have been a victim of a medical error, and 90 percent would like the state to publicly report the number of errors at each hospital.