Patient Safety & Quality

WHO Launches Global Effort to Halve Medication-Related Errors in 5 Years

30 Mar, 2017 | 17:30h | UTC

Press release: WHO Launches Global Effort to Halve Medication-Related Errors in 5 Years – World Health Organization (free)

See also: WHO’s work on patient safety (free) AND WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety (free) AND WHO Educational materials for medication safety (free)

 

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Putting Patients First by Reducing Administrative Tasks in Health Care

29 Mar, 2017 | 17:13h | UTC

Putting Patients First by Reducing Administrative Tasks in Health Care: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians (free)

See also: ACP: Stop Saddling Docs With Administrative Tasks – MedPage Today (free registration required)

“It’s time for all those involved in the healthcare industry to reevaluate and reduce the administrative task burden placed on clinicians” (from MedPage commentary above).

 

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Healthcare Quality and Safety Online Course

28 Mar, 2017 | 16:50h | UTC

Just Started: Leading Healthcare Quality and Safety – Free Online Course from The George Washington University and Coursera (free)

 

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Surgeries are being performed with the patient awake

27 Mar, 2017 | 00:59h | UTC

Going Under the Knife, With Eyes and Ears Wide Open – New York Times (free access to 10 articles per month)

“More and more surgeries are being performed with the patient awake and looking on, for financial and medical reasons”.

 

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