Content tagged with 'Accidents and Safety'
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Jennifer Dingman, Founder of PULSE
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | February 20, 2013 | Jennifer Dingman
I got involved in patient safety many years ago after I lost my mom in early 1995 due to medical errors. While my mom was in a coma for seven weeks, I met other families in ICU. Many of them – the majority – had unanswered questions.
Medical Errors: Can Patients and Caregivers Spur Improvement?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | February 5, 2013 | Conversation Continues
A new report from Minnesota on medical errors shines a light on the fact that their frequency remains stubbornly high. Can patients and caregivers make a difference?
Accidental Poisonings Leading Cause of Deaths at Home
HBNS STORY | February 5, 2013
An increasing number of people die from unintentional home injury, in large part due to accidental drug overdose, according to a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Handling Treatment Side Effects
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Comparative Effectiveness Research: Helen Haskell, Founder of Mothers Against Medical Error
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | January 15, 2013 | Helen Haskell
Comparative effectiveness research will be transformational if done properly. The critical thing is that it be done without built-in bias.
Reducing Your Risk of Medical Errors
PREPARED PATIENT ARTICLE
Recovering from a knee replacement is difficult under the best of circumstances, but for Herminia Briones, the year following her surgery was filled with unexpected pain, complications and confusion. Her repeated attempts to draw attention to her problems went unheeded, beginning an unfortunate and not uncommon struggle with medical error. Why do medical errors happen and how can you help protect yourself from harm?
Depression in Young Adults Linked to Higher Risk of Early Death
HBNS STORY | August 14, 2012
Depression in young adulthood can have long-lasting effects, potentially leading to a higher risk of death even decades later, suggests a new study in the Annals of Epidemiology.
Peer Passengers Are Bad News for Teen Drivers
HBNS STORY | January 24, 2012
Two new studies in the February Journal of Adolescent Health reviewed key factors shown to influence teen driving behaviors: perception of driving risks, parental monitoring and the presence of peer passengers.
1st Person: My Post-Op Problems Were Brushed Aside
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | December 15, 2011 | First Person
Instead of enjoying a full recovery, Herminia Briones experienced distressing new symptoms the year following her knee-replacement surgery.
Prepared Patient: Reducing Your Risk of Medical Errors
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | December 15, 2011 | Health Behavior News Service
Recovering from a knee replacement is difficult under the best of circumstances, but for Herminia Briones, the year following her surgery was filled with unexpected pain, complications and confusion. Her repeated attempts to draw attention to her problems went unheeded, beginning an unfortunate and not uncommon struggle with medical error. Why do medical errors happen and how can you help protect yourself from harm?
Guest Blog: A Near Miss. A Good Pharmacist. A Serious Lesson.
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | December 8, 2011 | Herb Wells
Last week I went to the family pharmacy I use in New York City to pick up a new anti-arrhythmic drug that might slow down or even stop the atrial fibrillation I had experienced for the previous two weeks. The pharmacist came from behind his privacy wall to speak with me before dispensing the drug.
Guest Blog: Doing Things Right: Why Three Hospitals Didn't Harm My Wife
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | December 6, 2011 | Michael Millenson
My wife was lying in the back of an ambulance, dazed and bloody, while I sat in the front, distraught and distracted. We had been bicycling in a quiet neighborhood in southern Maine when she hit the handbrakes too hard and catapulted over the handlebars, turning our first day of vacation into a race to the nearest hospital.
Better Labeling Could Help Thwart Acetaminophen Overdose
HBNS STORY | May 3, 2011
When misused, acetaminophen — marketed as Tylenol — can lead to acute liver failure and worse, often due to accidental overdose by an uninformed consumer. A new small study looks at what’s missing in consumer education and how to overcome those gaps.
Semper Paratus: Our Decisions About Emergency Care
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | April 20, 2011 | Jessie Gruman
Nora misjudged the height of the stair outside the restaurant, stepped down too hard, jammed her knee and tore her meniscus. Not that we knew this at the time. All we knew then was that she was howling from the pain. There we were on a dark, empty, wet street in lower Manhattan, not a cab in sight, with a wailing, immobile woman. What to do? Call 911? Find a cab to take her home and contact her primary care doctor for advice? Take her home, put ice on her knee, feed her Advil and call her doctor in the morning?
Inside Health Care: Evidence Patient Safety Improves With a Checklist
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | February 8, 2011 | CFAH Staff
Checklists are not just for rocket launches. Family doctor, Dr. Davis Liu, Rep. Giffords' trauma surgeon, Dr. Randall Friese, former hospital CEO, Dr. Paul Levy, and a fifth year medical student, Ishani Ganguli, post on the importance of using checklists to promote patient safety. A new British Medical Journal study agrees.
Mechanical Versus Manual CPR—Too Close to Call
HBNS STORY | January 18, 2011
Makers say that mechanical devices perform CPR more effectively than human efforts alone. However, a new review comparing mechanical to manual chest compressions has failed to demonstrate that one is superior to the other.
More on ERs
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | January 14, 2011 | Conversation Continues
CNN's Empowered Patient also focused on emergency rooms in their January 13th article Don't Die Waiting in the ER .More articles and features in Elizabeth Cohen's Empowered Patient series can be found here.
Prepared Patient: In Case of Emergency: Who's Who in the ER
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | January 13, 2011 | Health Behavior News Service
While commuting to work in September 2009, Ashley Finley stopped her bike short to avoid a pedestrian ' and flew over the handlebars, hitting her head on the pavement. Her chin gushing blood and with concerns about head injury, Ashley and her partner, Goldie Pyka*, immediately headed to an ER. Though their wait time in the Washington, D.C., emergency room was minimal, Pyka says she felt surprised by the number of people who participated in Ashley's care. 'I was expecting to see one person, tell them what happened and have that person help. I wasn't expecting to interact with that many people and to not really be told who they were and what they were there for. I felt we were very passive in the whole experience,' Pyka says.
Are You Medically Prepared for a Natural Disaster?
HBNS STORY | January 11, 2011
How well are the millions of Americans with a disability or chronic disease prepared for a natural disaster like a hurricane or tropical storm?
Why We Still Kill Patients: Invisibility, Inertia, And Income
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | December 7, 2010 | Michael Millenson
A recent front-page article in the New York Times conveyed grim news about patient safety. The first large-scale study of hospital safety in a decade concluded that care has not gotten significantly safer since the Institute of Medicine's 1999 estimate of up to 98,000 preventable deaths and 1 million preventable injuries annually.
Heat Injury Rates on the Rise
HBNS STORY | December 7, 2010
Outdoor exercise and physical activity increase the risk for heat-related injuries, including dangerous heat stroke. Heat injuries are on the rise for all age groups, and football-playing boys are among the most vulnerable.
Contemplating Safety While Lying Down
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 1, 2010 | Jessie Gruman
You have to get out of this hospital it's a dangerous place, each of my physician friends exclaimed when they came to visit me during my recent stay after surgery for stomach cancer.
Schizophrenia Patients Suffer More Hospital Injuries
HBNS STORY | July 23, 2010
Mental Stress Doesn’t Distract Young Drivers at the Wheel
HBNS STORY | May 18, 2010
Sleep-deprived College Students: Asleep at the Wheel
HBNS STORY | March 2, 2010
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