By David Mayer, MD, CEO Patient Safety Movement Foundation, Executive Director MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety
Engaging with patients is a time-honored tradition in medicine, and by no means a [...]
Clinicians often have competing priorities in the clinical setting which hinder their ability to provide time for thorough dialogue with patients. Often, this dialogue contains information about procedures or processes [...]
By: Olivia Lounsbury, Clinical Research Coordinator
A parent should never have to watch their child die after they’ve been asking repeatedly for help, screaming to be heard, with no response.
“Why is [...]
By: Olivia Lounsbury, Patient Safety Movement Foundation
The coronavirus has pulled the band-aid off of our healthcare system and has exposed the system’s failures. Under normal circumstances, 220,000-440,000 people die from [...]
By: Olivia Lounsbury, Patient Safety Movement Foundation
Those older than 65 and with long term conditions are, clinically speaking, more at risk for COVID-19 complications and poorer outcomes. Healthcare workers are [...]
By: Lauren Berkow, MD FASA and Arthur Kanowitz MD FACEP, Coalition for UE Awareness & Prevention
Healthcare providers have an increased risk of exposure to COVID-19, both during intubation and extubation.
Caregivers [...]
You wouldn’t think about eating at a restaurant that had a poor grade on food quality, so why not hold your hospital to the same standard? Joanne Disch, Clinical Professor [...]
Growing evidence indicates that patients face greater risk from surgeries performed at low-volume hospitals. Since the 1979 landmark study that examined mortality rates for 12 surgical procedures of varying complexity [...]
For centuries, a fundamental principle of bioethics for health care workers (HCWs) has been primum non nocere, or first, do no harm. Although this guidance is mostly applicable to therapeutic [...]
