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Adverse Safety Events in Emergency Medical Services Care (EMS) of Children With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest – 60% of all patients experienced at least 1 severe ASE (30% had 2 or more)
thehealthtransformation.foundation Joaquim Cardoso MSc January 31, 2024 The following abstract was taken from the study published by the…
Diagnosis errors contribute to nearly 800,000 serious harms, deaths annually — US context [plausible range from 598 000–to 1 023 000]
health strategy review management, engineering and technology review Joaquim Cardoso MSc. Senior Research and Strategy Officer (CRSO), Chief Editor and Senior Advisor…
An alarming rate of 25% adverse events found in inpatient care – 1/4 were preventable [despite 30+ years of the patient safety movement]
This is a republication of the paper “The Safety of Inpatient Health Care”, with the title above. the…
Preventable medication errors kill 3,0 million people every year. 0,5 million are killed by drug abuse [70% being opioids]
World Patient Safety Day: Ensuring Medicines Are Properly Prescribed Health Policy WatchStefan Anderson16/09/2022 Site editor: Joaquim Cardoso MSc.health…
A diagnosis of medical error — 55.000 people die per year in Brazil – [see also improvement cases @ Einstein and Sirio]
Recent studies survey hospital medical teams’ mistakes and show how to overcome them Revista Pesquisa FAPESPCarlos FioravantiIssue # 287M,…
Rethinking Use Of Air-Safety Principles To Reduce Fatal Hospital Errors [full version & best practices]
Health AffairsAndy Pasztor, Adam AndersenAUGUST 26, 2022 Executive Summary by: Joaquim Cardoso MSc.transform health — institute for continuous transformationpatient safety unitAugust…
Leapfrog Group Urges Hospitals to Focus on Patient Safety – that harms 1 in 4 Medicare patients (USA)
Leapfrog Group CEO Leah Binder urges hospitals to focus more on patient safety Chief Healthcare ExecutiveRon SouthwickJune 7, 2022…
Early death after cancer surgery is higher in countries with low 5 hospital facilities — ultrasound, CT scanner, critical care unit, opioid analgesia, and oncologist.
This is an excerpt of the publication below, with the title above. Effects of hospital facilities on patient…
One in Four Medicare Patients Harmed in Hospitals (25%), Nearly Half Preventable (50%)
CMS needs to do more to penalize facilities with avoidable adverse events, report says Among the roughly 1 million…
Estimating Health Care-Associated Infections and Deaths in U.S. Hospitals– ~99,000 deaths/year (2002)
Public Health Rep. R. Monina Klevens, DDS, MPH; a Jonathan R. Edwards, MS, aChesley L. Richards, Jr., MD, MPH,…