A New Way to Promote Patient Safety - Talk to Your Doctor
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has posted a video about this novel approach - talk to your doctor. It has certainly become an issue for many patients and physicians in the rushed clinical setting. Time to slow down and really talk. Here are some of the suggestions:
This video would be appropriate to link to from any health information or hospital website. Such a simple intervention to try to address patient safety - why didn't we think of it sooner.
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- What the barriers are to good communication between patient and doctor.
- What steps you can take to make sure you understand everything your doctor is saying.
- What questions you should ask your doctor about medical tests, diagnosis, and medicines.
- How you can ask your doctor about alternative therapies.
- How you can become more comfortable asking your doctor about sensitive topics.
This video would be appropriate to link to from any health information or hospital website. Such a simple intervention to try to address patient safety - why didn't we think of it sooner.
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Caught a site with lots of data on patient safety from CDC and links to patient safety advocacy groups: www.patientsafetyfocus.com
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Hi John,
Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 2-8, 2008) kicks off soon and Arrowsight Medical has launched Patient Safety Focus (http://patientsafetyfocus.com), a new blog, to share important information with patients, caregivers, insurers and the media.
Patient Safety Focus brings together in one place everything you need to know about Patient Safety, MRSA and preventable infections, and the organizations working to make things better.
It's an ideal home page for hospital administrators and staff, insurers, reporters and the public, so that we can all have easy access to data, studies and the latest news, and keep patient safety top of mind.
We would be delighted if you would check it out, send comments and share this information with friends. A release follows below.
Call with questions.
Thank you,
Rob Ungar
516.606.4964
Arrowsight Medical Launches Patient Safety Blog to Increase Awareness, Conversation
Arrowsight Medical (Arrowsight.com) has launched Patient Safety Focus (http://PatientSafetyFocus.com), a comprehensive, online resource on patient safety programs, statistics and solutions, for healthcare industry professionals, media and consumers. The blog is being introduced on the occasion of Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 2-8), a national education and awareness-building campaign.
PatientSafetyFocus.com consolidates and makes it easy to access key patient safety information on hand hygiene, MRSA, protocols, advocacy programs, as well as industry reports and statistics from a variety of sources.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
• Some 99,000 Americans die each year from infections acquired in a hospital.
• Between 5 and 10 percent of patients admitted to acute-care hospitals acquire one or more infections there.
• One in five Americans (22%) report that they or a family member have experienced a medical error of some kind in a doctor's office or hospital.
• There are an estimated 1.7 million hospital-acquired infections each year … the sixth leading cause of death nationally.
• Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) cost the healthcare industry $6 billion annually.
Arrowsight CEO Adam Aronson said, “By aggregating information on patient safety, we hope to increase awareness of and enable conversation around the critical issue of dramatically decreasing the occurrences of preventable infections and medical errors.”
Leapfrog Group Chief Operating Officer Karen Linscott, added: “Just as Leapfrog Group seeks to enable breakthrough improvements in healthcare, PatientSafetyFocus.com will compliment that effort by enabling easier access to information on patient safety both for healthcare providers and consumers.”
PatientSafetyFocus.com is published by Arrowsight Medical, a developer of Hospital Video Auditing (HVA), an affordable system of video-based monitoring, assessments and reports that has improved hand-washing compliance from 38 to 90 per cent and provided hospital administrators and phy
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