The 2016 Connecticut Department of Public Health Report on adverse medical events was recently released. I was waiting for this report and hoping that I would read about significant improvements from the past years, showing meaningful reductions in the number of patient harm events leading to death or serious injury or consequences. What I read was that there has been no significant reduction in the number of patient harm events over the last year.
Lisa Freeman
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Let’s involve Connecticut patients in reducing medical errors
March 13 through 18 is National Patient Safety Awareness Week. As I sit here, thinking of what to write, stories of the people who have reached out to the CT Center for Patient Safety over the years are streaming through my mind. I am remembering the story of an infant whose high bilirubin level was not treated after birth and who suffered from kernicterus and now lives with severe complications of cerebral palsy; the story of the young mom who died sitting next to her 4-year-old after getting an allergy shot at the doctor’s office and going into anaphylactic shock. They didn’t have IV epinephrine to help her.
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Op-Ed: Connecticut needs transparency in health care
Without transparency of quality data and health care costs, patients cannot make informed decisions nor be fully engaged in their own health care.
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Op-Ed: CT hospitals must do more to prevent errors and patient harm
Connecticut hospitals should not be boasting about their efforts to improve patient safety, considering the state ranks last in that area, according to a national report. They should be doing more to prevent medical errors.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
CT hospitals must do more to prevent errors and patient harm
Connecticut hospitals should not be boasting about their efforts to improve patient safety, considering the state ranks last in that area, according to a national report. They should be doing more to prevent medical errors.