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Both autonomy and the law favor allowing patients access to their medical records, and there are clearly associated benefits, says Gregory R. Moore, MD, MPH, senior director at Stamps Health Services at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
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Explantation of battery-operated implants such as pacemakers involves pressing ethical issues but receives little attention, according to Katrina A. Bramstedt, PhD, a clinical ethicist and associate professor at Bond University School of Medicine in Australia, and former faculty in the Department of Bioethics at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
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News: This case involves a 24-year-old single father who was involuntarily committed to the hospital for severe depression, including suicidal and homicidal ideations.
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When nurses feel safe admitting to their supervisors that theyve made a mistake regarding a patient, they are more likely to report the error, according to an international team of researchers.
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Low patient safety scores from The Leapfrog Group have some hospitals crying foul and claiming that the groups data is old and the scoring methodology flawed. If you didnt get the score you were hoping for, should that be cause for alarm, or can you dismiss it?
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The Leapfrog Group updated its Hospital Safety Scores in November 2012, five months after the first scores were released. More than half of the hospitals received the same score as in June 2012, and 23% earned a higher grade.
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Texas researchers are calling for a national strategy to address patient safety in electronic health records (EHRs).
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The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and the Cautious Patient Foundation have announced a collaboration to help patients avoid diagnostic errors in their own care.
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Disruptive behaviors, intimidation in the workplace, and a culture of disrespect among healthcare professionals have repeatedly surfaced as significant barriers to patient safety.
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When the American Hospital Association (AHA) criticized The Leapfrog Group for its patient safety scoring methodology, Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, struck back.
