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RESOURCES: PATIENT SAFETY NEWS TRACKER 2004 updated 12/11/2006 please send story/link suggestions to  webadmin@vipcs.org 
Articles that focus on the Six Aims for Improvement: Safe, Effective, Patient-Centered, Timely, Efficient, and Equitable Health Care.

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• Recurring Journals
• AHRQ WebM&M: Morbidity & Mortality Rounds | AHRQ Patient Safety Network | Healthcare 411 Podcasts
• IHI Continuous Improvement | Quality and Safety in Health Care
• AHA Quality and Patient Safety
• Harvard RMF Resource Audio News
• ISMP Medication Safety Alert!
• Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare
• Swedish Case Studies
• 2006 Articles
• HealthLeaders News: The Hospitalists? Potential August 29, 2006
• NY Times: Making Health Care the Engine That Drives the Economy August 22, 2006
• Washington Post: The Secret's Out August 22, 2006
• Boston Globe: Skin scourge August 21, 2006
• NY Times: Smart Care via a Mouse, but What Will It Cost? August 20, 2006
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Does Pay-for-Performance Improve the Quality of Health Care? August 15, 2006
• NY Times: Patient Power: Making Sure Your Doctor Really Hears You August 15, 2006
• NY Times: The Operating Room: Morning Surgery Gives Rise to Fewer Problems August 15, 2006
• The Annals of Internal Medicine: Assessment of the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Program August 14, 2006
  • Enhancing the Potential of Quality Improvement Organizations To Improve Quality of Care
• The Archives of Internal Medicine: Choosing Your Words Carefully August 14, 2006
  • NY Times: Medical Errors? Patients May Be the Last to Know 
• Chicago Tribune: Hospitals make comparison shopping impossible August 10, 2006
• Washington Post: Administration Aims to Set Health-Care Standards August 7, 2006
• Inquirer: Insurer to track health records August 7, 2006
• The Commonwealth Fund: Achieving a High Performance Health System: High Reliability Organizations Within a Broader Agenda August 7, 2006
  • Full Report
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh to lead battle over bacteria August 02, 2006
• Tennessean: Frist praises push to create e-medical records network July 23, 2006
• IOM: Medication Errors Injure 1.5 Million People and Cost Billions of Dollars Annually  July 20, 2006
  • Full Report
  • AP: Report: Drug errors injure more than 1.5M July 20, 2006
• HealthLeaders: Four Steps Toward Solving Our 'Grand National Problem' July 20, 2006
• HealthLeaders: 5 Intersections July 18, 2006 
• A New Dimension for Care Management--Including Prevention and Wellness HealthLeaders July 11, 2006 
• HealthLeaders: Data Mining and Innovation: Keys to U.S. Health Reform June 27, 2006
• Associated Press: FDA to Overhaul of Safety Data Collection June 21, 2006
• Boston Globe: Leading the way on healthcare June 21, 2006
• P-I: Physicians barred from using cursive to write prescriptions June 21, 2006
• In Medicine, Acceptable Risk Is in the Eye of the Beholder NY Times June 20, 2006
• NY Times: Antibiotics: How Long Is Long Enough? June 20, 2006
• Premier Inc. releases groundbreaking evidence that improving patient care can reduce costs, save lives June 20, 2006
• Kansas City Business Journal: Missouri will help spread hospital infection rate data June 16, 2006
• Veteran hospital administrator writes 'survival guide' for doctors Philadelphia Business Journal June 16, 2006
• IHI Announces That Hospitals Participating In 100,000 Lives Campaign Have Saved An Estimated 122,300 Lives June 14, 2006
  • Don Berwick's Plenary Webcast
  • Yahoo: Hospitals cut lethal errors rate June 14, 2006
• HealthLeaders: Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act Not Necessarily a Panacea June 13, 2006 
• The Concord Monitor: New Englanders should be much healthier: Prevention is cheaper than intervention June 9, 2006
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Schools must expand medical training, report says June 7, 2006
• LA Times: Erin Brockovich Takes Role as Plaintiff in Medicare Suits June 7, 2006
• Annals of Internal Medicine: The Effects of On-Duty Napping on Intern Sleep Time and Fatigue
• The Washington Post: The Health Care Lottery: Taking Your Chances With Insurance, Money and Uncertain Treatments June 4, 2006
• Detroit FREEP: Blue Cross to boost incentive programs, Aim is to improve care and cut costs June 2, 2006
• The Providence Journal: In health care, less is more June 2, 2006
• TCS Daily: Minding the Health Gap   June 1, 2006
• Dartmouth Atlas: The Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness: An Online Report on the Medicare Program May 2006
  • Press Release: New Study Shows Need for a Major Overhaul of How United States Manages Chronic Illness May 16, 2006
• Commonwealth Fund: Cultural Competency: An E-Forum from a Fund Roundtable May 2006
• Virginian Pilot: So long, doctor scribble: Medical offices join the computer age May 28, 2006
• Columbus Dispatch: Bill would unveil hospital statistics May 26, 2006
• ABC: Standards, costs slow US digital health data move May 26, 2006
• Times Dispatch: Honorees seek to improve patient safety May 25, 2006
• Wall Street Journal: Hospitals seek to collect better data and prevent errors May 23, 2006
• HHS: ELIMINATING SERIOUS, PREVENTABLE, AND COSTLY MEDICAL ERRORS - NEVER EVENTS May 18, 2006
• Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology: American Health Information Community Meeting May 16, 2006
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Systematic Review: Impact of Health Information Technology on Quality, Efficiency, and Costs of Medical Care May 16, 2006
• Baltimore Sun: US medical-records technology faulted May 10, 2006
• NQF: Pre-voting review for Serious Reportable Events in Healthcare May 9, 2006
• WSJ: To Reduce Errors, Hospitals Prescribe Innovative Designs May 8, 2006
• NY Times: A Star Is Made May 7, 2006
• HealthLeaders: The 8 Dimensions of Care Management May 5, 2006  
• Baltimore Sun: Patient advocate may help get care you need May 5, 2006
• NY Times: Doctors Object to Gathering of Drug Data May 4, 2006
• Boston Globe: Employers focus on chronic ailments, Incentive programs aim to control costs May 4, 2006
• JAMA: Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England May 3, 2006
  • NY Times: Study Says Older Americans Are Less Healthy Than British
  • Forbes: Americans Less Healthy Than the British
• Annals of Internal Medicine May 2, 2006
  • Regional Variations in Health Care Intensity and Physician Perceptions of Quality of Care
  • Does More Health Care Spending Produce Better Health and Happier Doctors?
  • Patients' Global Ratings of Their Health Care Are Not Associated with the Technical Quality of Their Care
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Hospitals turn to data experts May 2, 2006
• NY Times: For Science's Gatekeepers, a Credibility Gap May 2, 2006
• Time: Q: What Scares Doctors? A: Being the Patient May 1, 2006
  • The Olympian: What scares doctors should worry you, too
• HealthLeaders: Reform Payment Models to Transform Health  May 1, 2006
• Am J Health Syst Pharm: Ability of practitioners to identify solid oral dosage tablets May 1, 2006
• Healthcare Financial Management: Finding the balance between quality and cost April 2006
• Archives of Surgery: Incidence, Patterns and Prevention of Wrong Site Surgery April 2006
  • AHRQ Podcast:  Lead Story: Wrong Site Surgery is Rare April 28, 2006
  • Press Release: AHRQ Study Finds Wrong-site Surgery Rare and Preventable April 17, 2006  
• CIO: What Happened to Do No Harm? April 2006
• Critical Care Medicine: Critical care delivery in the United States: distribution of services and compliance with Leapfrog recommendations  April 2006
• Health Grades: Health Grades Quality Study: Third Annual Patient Safety In American Hospitals April 2006
• City Business Journals: Hospitalists changing inpatient care, Area hospitals report efficiencies, better care; physicians accepting concept April 28, 2006
• The Virginian-Pilot : Rate of serious discipline of Va. doctors lower April 28, 2006
• Archives of Internal Medicine: Racial Differences in Trust in Health Care Providers April 24, 2006
  • Kaiser: Coverage & Access | Blacks More Likely Than Whites To Mistrust U.S. Health System, Study Says
  • Reuters: Blacks mistrust health care system: study
• DesMoines Register: Toyota plan aids University of Iowa hospital efficiency April 21, 2006
• Times Dispatch: All Va. hospitals will have medical-directive forms April 16, 2006
• IHI's: Author in the Room Audio Conference: All-or-None Measurement Raises the Bar on Performance April 19, 2006
• Birmingham News: Patients urged to ask doctors questions April 19, 2006
• HealthLeaders: Improving Patient Safety Through Patient Empowerment April 18, 2006
• Washington Post: Screening Boom April 18, 2006
• BMJ: Medical academia is failing patients and clinicians April, 15 2006
• Baltimore Sun: Maryland to track its hospital infections April 14, 2006
• HealthLeaders: The Word of Those With Whom We Do Business: The State of Ethics in Healthcare April 14, 2006
• Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare: ICU Computerization Resulted in Decreased Occurrence and Severity of Medication Errors April 13, 2006
• NY Times: Evaluating Doctors With Medicare Data April 12, 2006
• AHRQ: Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology April 11, 2006
  • Press Release: New Information Will Help Health Care Providers Adopt Health IT
• NY Times: Employers Push White House to Disclose Medicare Data April 11, 2006
• PWC: Employers Embrace Consumerism to Control Healthcare Costs April 10, 2006
  • AP: Study: Few Execs Praise Health Care Data April 10, 2006
• LA Times: Schools need our help in preventing medication errors April 10, 2006
• Alliance for Health: Patient Safety: Why It's Getting More Visibility  April 7, 2006
• Mayo Clinic: Mayo Clinic Leaders Offer Health Reform Vision, Prescriptions April 4, 2006
  • Mayo Clinic National Symposium on Health Care Reform
• AHA News: Infection reporting must be based on solid data, AHA and others tell Hill April 3, 2006
• PHC4: Hospital Acquired Infections in Pennsylvania March 2006
• Milbank Quarterly: Stories from the Sharp End: Case Studies in Safety Improvement March 2006
• Washington Post: Infections Take a Heavy Toll on Patients, Profit March 29, 2006
• Modern Healthcare: 100K Lives falling short March 20, 2006
• NEJM: Who Is at Greatest Risk for Receiving Poor-Quality Health Care? March 16, 2006
  • National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2005
  • AP/Yahoo: Study shows that most all Americans get mediocre healthcare 
• IHI: When Things Go Wrong: Responding to Adverse Events. A Consensus Statement of the Harvard Hospitals March 2006
• HealthLeaders: Going All In March 2006
• AHA News Now: Hospitals asked to participate in quality improvement survey March 29, 2006
• AHA News Now: JCAHO alerts health care organizations to impostor surveyor March 27, 2006
• AHA News: HQA updates Hospital Compare information March 20, 2006
• AHA News Now: AHRQ online tool helps states, public access data from quality report March 17, 2006
• AHRQ:  Special Report: State Healthcare Quality Snapshots March 17, 2006
• AHRQ:  Special Report: How to Get the Most Out of a Visit with your Health Care Professional February 15, 2006
• Commonwealth Fund: Making Systematic Reviews More Useful March 16, 2006
• A More Heartfelt Loyalty March 15, 2006
• Pay For Quality March 15, 2006
• HSC: Reflections on a Decade of Tracking Health System Change March 15, 2006
• Commonwealth Fund: Transparency in Health Care March 15, 2006
• Commonwealth Fund: Use of Own Terms May Improve Data on Race and Ethnicity March 10, 2006
• Commonwealth Fund: Interpreters Improve Patient Satisfaction March 10, 2006
• Health Affairs: Extracting Knowledge From Science: A Conversation With Elias Zerhouni March 9, 2006
• JAMA: All-or-None Measurement Raises the Bar on Performance March 8, 2006
• AHRQ:  Special Report: Patient Safety March 6, 2006
• AHRQ: Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance Announces Pilot Project March 1, 2006
• AHRQ:  Special Report: Next Steps After Diagnosis March 1, 2006
• Health Affairs: Snapshot of Hospital Quality Reporting and Pay-For-Performance Under Medicare January/February 2006
• WHO: London Declaration: Patients for Patient Safety February 2006
• Commonwealth Fund: Keys to Successfully Adopting Electronic Health Records February 24, 2006
• Commonwealth Fund: New Zealand's No-Fault Compensation: Timely and Equitable Awards to Patients February 24, 2006
• AHRQ: Guide to Patient Safety Indicators February 20, 2006
• AHRQ: AHRQ Launches New "Learning Resources" To Help Providers Adopt Health IT  February 13, 2006
• IHI: When Leaders Embrace Change January 26, 2006
• AHRQ:  Special Report: Questions to Ask Before Surgery January 18, 2006
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Problem Doctors: Is There a System-Level Solution? January 17, 2006
• AHRQ:  Lead Story: QR-DR January 9, 2006
• AHRQ: AHRQ Releases 2005 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports  January 9, 2006
• 2005 Articles
• HSC: Slow Start for Physician Pay for Performance (P4P) in Many Communities Dec. 14, 2005
• Health Affairs: Taking the Pulse of Health Care Systems: Experiences of Patients With Health Problems in Six Countries November 3, 2005
• Milbank: Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care with Better Information September 2005
• AHRQ: Announces New Brochure To Help People Make Decisions about Surgery December 28, 2005
• Int J Qual Health Care: Patient perspectives of patient-provider communication after adverse events December 17, 2005
• AHRQ: Announces New Brochure To Help People Find Infomation and Support Following a Medical Diagnosis October 11, 2005
• Critical Care Medicine: The Critical Care Safety Study: The incidence and nature of adverse events and serious medical errors in intensive care August 2005
• AHRQ:-Supported Study Finds Medical Disparities Narrowing August 17, 2005
• AHRQ: ICU Patients at Significant Risk for Adverse Events and Serious Errors August 8, 2005
• CMS: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Quality Improvement Roadmap July 2005
• MedPAC: Quality in the Medicare Program June 2005
• CRS Summary: Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 July 29, 2005
• AHRQ: AHRQ's New Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation Shows Accomplishments, Challenges for Improving Patient Safety and Reducing Medical Errors May 4, 2005
• AHRQ: Ambulatory Performance Measures "Major Step" in Improving Quality of Health Care: Broad-based Coalition Reaches Consensus on "Starter Set" for Physicians May 3, 2005
• Health Affairs: What is Driving Hospitals' Patient-Safety Efforts? March/April 2004
• CRS: Health Care Quality: Improving Patient Safety by Promoting Medical Errors Reporting March 24, 2005
• AHRQ: New AHRQ-Funded Study on Computerized Order Entry Finds Flaws That Could Lead to Errors, Points to Opportunities for Improvement March 8, 2005
• New York Times: FDA to Create Advisory Panel to Warn Patients About Drugs February 16, 2005

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