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RESOURCES: PATIENT SAFETY NEWS TRACKER ARCHIVES 2004

• November Information
• NY Times: Building a Medical Data Network November 22, 2004
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Seattle hospital apologizes in death of patient November 24, 2004
• New York Times: Building a medical data network November 22, 2004
• HealthLeaders: Lessons From the UK EMR: Not Exactly Apples to Apples November 19, 2004
• Washington Post: Survey shows fear of medical errors November 18, 2004
• BMJ November 17, 2004
  • Counting hospital activity: spells or episodes?
  • Is economic evaluation in touch with society's health values?
• Wall Street Journal: Hospitals make fewer errors, but fall short on safety goals November 17, 2004
• Kansas City Star: Kansas City hospitals improve in cardiac care November 17, 2004
• HealthLeaders:Competing on Trust November 17, 2004
• New York Times: Smart or misguided? The proactive doctor November 16, 2004
• Annals of Internal Medicine November 16, 2004
  • Measuring the Quality of Physician Practice by Using Clinical Vignettes: A Prospective Validation Study
  • Back to the Future: Clinical Vignettes and the Measurement of Physician Performance
  • Update on the Health Disparities Literature
  • Inequality in Health Care: Unjust, Inhumane, and Unattended!
• Washington Post: Dispelling Malpractice Myths November 14, 2004
• NY Times: Race-Based Medicine Continued... November 14, 2004
• NEJM: Improving Patient Safety — Five Years after the IOM Report November 11, 2004
• NY Times: Heart Disease: Dirty Twist to Clean Bill of Health November 9, 2004
• American Medical News November 8, 2004
  • Changes sought to tech rules for Medicare quality groups
  • PPO offers patient, physician incentives
• Doctors Eye Apologies for Medical Mistakes November 8, 2004
• Los Angeles Times: Claim filed in man's death at Los Angeles hospital November 2, 2004
• New York Times: Defining a doctor, with a tear, a shrug and a schedule November 2, 2004
• Business First of Columbus: Ohio medical center to keep watch on ICU patients November 1, 2004
• Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Wisconsin hospital system providing price information November 1, 2004
• HealthLeaders: Comedy of EMRs: Last-minute Election Dreams November 1, 2004
• New York Times: Is Kaiser the future of American healthcare? November 1, 2004
• American Medical News November 1, 2004
  • Turning theory into practice: When cutting-edge doesn't always cut it
  • Services pop up to help dOctoberors pick EMR system
  • Minnesota insurer won't pay hospitals for "never events"
  • EMR goal should go beyond practice aid to extensive tool for patient care; and others
  • Translation frustration: When research doesn't reach
• October Monthly Information
• Annals of Family Medicine
  • Continuity, Care, and Commitment: The Course of Patient-Clinician Relationships
  • Impact of an Evidence-Based Computerized Decision Support System on Primary Care Prescription Costs
  • Interpersonal Continuity of Care and Patient Satisfaction: A Critical Review
  • Patient-Physician Shared Experiences and Value Patients Place on Continuity of Care
  • Physician-Patient Relationship and Medication Compliance: A Primary Care Investigation
  • Patients’ Needs for Contact With Their GP at the Time of Hospital Admission and Other Life Events: A Quantitative and Qualitative Exploration
• October Daily Information
• BMJ October 30, 2004 special issue on evidence based medicine
• Florida Times-Union: Florida patients could examine doctors October 29, 2004
• NEJM: Effect of Reducing Interns' Weekly Work Hours on Sleep and Attentional Failures October 28, 2004
  • Washington Post: Doctors who sleep more err less
• Richmond Times Dispatch: Virginia birth-injury ruling may lead to malpractice suit October 27, 2004
• AP/Yahoo!: World Health Organization takes aim at reducing medical mistakes October 27, 2004
• American Medical News October 25, 2004
  • Hospital care varies widely for chronically ill Medicare patients
  • Just because it's new doesn't mean it's best
• JCAHO: New National Campaign Offers Americans Three Easy Steps To Prevent Infections October 20, 2004
• CFAH: Knowledge May Be Hazardous to Web Consumers' Health October 18, 2004
• FCW: Health IT experts urge investment October 15, 2004
• HHS: HHS Awards $139 Million to Drive Adoption of Health Information Technology October 13, 2004
• BMJ October 14, 2004
  • Preventing the spread of MRSA: All frontline staff need to be involved...
  • Preventing the spread of MRSA: ...the epidemiological nature of the problem should be tackled...
  • Preventing the spread of MRSA: ...and the role of practices such as phlebotomy is worth considering
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Differences, Disparities, and Biases: Clarifying Racial Variations in Health Care Use October 19, 2004
• BMJ October 14, 2004
  • Issues in the reporting of epidemiological studies: a survey of recent practice
  • Mortality rates and self reported health: database analysis by English local authority area
• JCAHO: Joint Commission Seeks Applicants For 2005 Ernest A. Codman Award October 12, 2004
• American Medical News October 11, 2004
  • Report finds gaps in health care quality
  • Proposed Massachusetts e-health network gets $50 million boost
  • Washington state nurses sue hospital over mandatory flu vaccination rule
• San Francisco Chronicle: How the health care system is failing -- and why it's hard to fix  October 11, 2004
• BMJ: Ethics in practice: Making clinical decisions when the stakes are high and the evidence unclear October 9, 2004
• The Times-Union: Insurer bonuses to reward doctors October 8, 2004
• Health Affairs: Variations Revisited October 7, 2004 
  • Washington Post: Studies Raise Questions On Value of Intensive Care
• AP: HealthPartners to Hold Payment for Errors October 6, 2004
• JAMA: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Time to Acute Reperfusion Therapy for Patients Hospitalized With Myocardial Infarction October 6, 2004
• JCAHO: Joint Commission Issues Alert On Patient Awareness Under Anesthesia October 6, 2004
  • USA Today: Group targeting anesthesia errors
• HealthLeaders: Help Wanted: Clockmakers in Healthcare October 6, 2004
• Annals of Internal Medicine October 5, 2004
  • Lost in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities for Improving the Quality of Transitional Care
  • A Multimethod Quality Improvement Intervention To Improve Preventive Cardiovascular Care: A Cluster Randomized Trial
• September Monthly Information
• NCQA: State of Health Care Quality
  • Press Release
  • AP: Poor Medical Treatment Kills Thousands
• IOM 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit: A Focus on Communities
  • Press Release
• Managed Healthcare Executive: Whither sociology?
• A Kettering Foundation Report: Examining Health Care, What’s the Public’s Prescription?
• HSC: Limited Information Technology for Patient Care in Physician Offices
• September Daily Information
• AHRQ: AHRQ Releases Guide to Using Its Quality Indicators for Hospital Quality Reporting and Payment September 30, 2004
• JCAHO: Joint Commission National Conference on Quality and Safety Set For December 1-3 in Chicago September 30, 2004
• AHRQ: Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety September 24, 2004
• AHRQ: AHRQ to Sponsor Patient Safety Product Showcase September 23, 2004
• ISMP: Patient safety should NOT be a priority in healthcare! Part I: Why we engage in "at-risk behaviors" September 23, 2004
• Washington Post: Alexandria Hospital to Create a Virtual ICU September 18, 2004
• JCAHO: Joint Commission, CMS To Make Common Performance Measures Identical September 16, 2004
• American Medical News September 13, 2004
  • Interventions gaining ground as next phase for patient safety research
  • Letters - Reduce medical errors by identifying and modifying risk factors; and others
  • Equal care for all: Fighting on many fronts
  • Well-educated patients guide their own care
• BMJ September 11, 2004
  • Using computers for assessment in medicine
  • Commentary: Can care management enhance integration of primary and specialty care?
• ISMP: Inflated risk: Inadvertent drug injections into inflation port  September 9, 2004
• ISMP: Potential confusion with AMARYL (glimepiride) and REMINYL (galantamine) September 9, 2004
• AHRQ: Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies September 9, 2004
• JCAHO: Joint Commission and National Quality Forum Announce the 2004 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards September 7, 2004
• American Medical News September 6, 2004
  • Congress must finish work on patient safety
  • Letters - Push for electronic medical records developing into yet another hassle for primary care physicians; and others
  • New studies back effectiveness of hospitalists
  • Health information networks: A growing trend
  • Medem enters agreement with electronic health firm
• BMJ September 4, 2004
  • Isolation measures in the hospital management of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): systematic review of the literature
  • Preventing the spread of MRSA
• Journal Sentinel: More time with patients, less with paperwork September 4, 2004
• HealthLeaders: What Good is an EMR without a PHR? September 3, 2004
• August Monthly Information
• Annals of Family Medicine: Preventing Errors in Clinical Practice: A Call for Self-Awareness
• The Laryngoscope articles on medical error
  • Boston Globe: Survey examines medical errors August 3, 2004
• August Daily Information
• American Medical News August 30, 2004
  • Ballot battle: Two professions square off over attorney fees and quality of care
  • Doctors face disparities in care of blacks
  • National Committee for Quality Assurance unveils connectivity standards for health plans
• ISMP: Root causes: A roadmap to action August 26, 2004
• Health Affairs: Rising Health Care Spending August 25, 2004
• Boston Globe: After shakeout, medical websites find new health August 23, 2004
• BMJ  August 21, 2004
  • The legacy of Bristol: public disclosure of individual surgeons' results
  • Email consultations in health care: 1--scope and effectiveness
  • Email consultations in health care: 2--acceptability and safe application
• HealthLeaders: Robert Wachter: The Word on Medical Mistakes August 20, 2004
• American Medical News August 16, 2004
  • Hospital errors generate spectrum of concerns
  • Catching phony physicians: Those masquerading in medicine sometimes injure patients
  • Anthem tests high-tech pen for use in online claims submission
  • New journal focuses on care for Hispanics
  • Medical organizations attack disparities on many fronts
• Annals of Internal Medicine August 16, 2004
  • Diabetes Care Quality in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System and Commercial Managed Care: The TRIAD Study
  • Creating a Culture of Quality: The Remarkable Transformation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System
• Cincinnati Business Courier: Laptops to take guesswork out of docs' handwriting in Cincinnati hospitals August  16, 2004
• NY Times: The Missing Rivalry in Health Care August 15, 2004
• BMJ  August 14, 2004
  • How often are adverse events reported in English hospital statistics?
  • Commentary: Is trust an under-researched component of healthcare organisation?
• HealthLeaders: Successful Strategies for Planning the Digital Hospital August 13, 2004
• ISMP: Hospital and medical staff leadership is key to compliance with JCAHO dangerous abbreviation list August 12, 2004
• Chicago Tribune: Rooting out bad medicine August 11, 2004
• Raleigh News & Observer:  Doctors turn to digital data  August 10, 2004
• Richmond Times Dispatch: Medical licensee data more accessible  August 10, 2004
• USA Today: One firm's bold step helps doctors, patients avoid errors August 10, 2004
• Archives of Internal Medicine: Inappropriate Prescribing for Elderly Americans in a Large Outpatient Population August 9, 2004
• Business Journal of Portland: Doctor's database nails down correct diagnosis August 9, 2004
• HealthLeaders: Alan L. Goldbloom: Driving Knowledge at Children's Hospital August 9, 2004
• American Medical News August 8, 2004
  • Communication problems often initiate "cascades" of errors
  • Hospital execs told to walk for safety
  • Government report finds fault with Joint Commission
  • Coalition offers doctors help with EMRs
• San Jose Mercury News: A test for new doctors August 5, 2004
• HSC: Separate—Perhaps, Unequal? Physicians Treating Black and White Medicare Patients August 4, 2004
• Annals of Internal Medicine August 3, 2004
  • From Unequal Treatment to Quality Care
  • The Patient's Role in Reducing Disparities
  • Will Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Be Resolved Primarily Outside of Standard Medical Care?
• San Francisco Business Times: California health institute gets grant for work toward new hospital report card Aug. 2, 2004
• American Medical News August 2, 2004
  • HHS outlines plan to increase national adoption of health information technology
  • Gingrich's grand vision: A medical world without paper
  • Hospitals are laying the groundwork for EMRs
  • Letters - Physicians have EMR wish list for health information technology czar; and others
  • Report urges racial, cultural diversity in medicine
• July Monthly Information
• Healthgrades: Patient Safety in American Hospitals
• July Daily Information
• HealthLeaders: What's the Difference Between Your Hospital and the Other? July 30, 2004
• The Business Journal: Medical data goes online at Minneapolis health system July 30, 2004
• New York Times: A complete medical history, without the manila folder July 29, 2004
• ISMP: Misprogram a PCA pump? It's easy!  July 29, 2004
• HealthLeaders: 11 Problems with Healthcare Ratings July 28, 2004
• Forbes: Scan-dalous July 27, 2004
• BMJ  July 24, 2004
  • The triumph of NICE
  • National Institute for Clinical Excellence and its value judgments
  • Challenges for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence
• JCAHO: Joint Commission Hails Senate Passage of Patient Safety Bill July 23, 2004
• HealthLeaders: Baby steps toward I.T. adoption July 21, 2004
• HHS: Thompson Launches "Decade of Health Information Technology" July 21, 2004 | FULL REPORT
  • HealthLeaders: E Pluribus E-Unum
  • USA Today: Health care's paper trail is costly route
• American Medical News July 19, 2004
  • States moving ahead on patient safety front
  • Health IT chief: Public-private partnership needed for EMRs
  • Show and tell: Letting outsiders see into the OR
  • Report details plan for e-prescribing
  • Let sun shine on clinical results
• BMJ: Health information for all by 2015? July 17, 2004
• Boston Globe: JCAHO Web tool aims to ease search for a hospital July 16, 2004
• ISMP: Lowdown on lomustine: We’d hate CeeNU make this mistake July 15, 2004
• Washington Post: Vision of Newt July 13, 2004
• New York Times: Report finds ethical conflicts in journals July 13, 2004
• Memphis Commercial Appeal: Memphis area hospitals test health data-sharing July 12, 2004
• JCAHO: Joint Commission's Newly Enhanced Quality Check Helps Americans Choose Health Care Services July 12, 2004
• American Medical News: Resident work-hour limits still a struggle one year into restrictions July 12, 2004
• Richmond Times Dispatch: Ethics change in focus July 10, 2004
• BMJ July 10, 2004
  • Star wars, NHS style
  • Performance assessment is here to stay
  • Open access to industry's clinically relevant data
  • Patient choice in the NHS
• NY Times: Studies Look at Health Care in the U.S. July 8, 2004
• The Kansas City Star: Patients' 'culture of safety' urged; Missouri report pushes fewer medical errors July 8, 2004
• The Kansas City Star: Commission recommends ways to improve patient safety July 7, 2004
• Boston Globe: Study links long hours, nurse errors July 7, 2004
• HealthLeaders: Culture Makes the Difference July 6, 2004
• Washington Post: To Reduce Errors, Cut Here July 6, 2004
• American Medical News July 5, 2004
  • Online consultation slow to grow
  • Universal health care coverage through technology
• BMJ July 3, 2004
  • Adverse drug reactions as cause of admission to hospital
  • Operative vaginal delivery and neonatal and infant adverse outcomes
  • Think harm always
  • The road to health care
  • Benefits and harms of drug treatments
  • Collecting and sharing information about harms
  • Detection, verification, and quantification of adverse drug reactions
  • Making decisions about benefits and harms of medicines
• The Indianapolis Star: An 'X' may not be best mark for job July 1, 2004
• The Indianapolis Star: Hospitals mark the spot for surgical safety July 1, 2004
• ISMP: An omnipresent risk of morphine-hydromorphone mix-ups July 1, 2004
• June Monthly Information
• Pediatrics
  • Pediatric Patient Safety in Hospitals: A National Picture in 2000
    • BMJ: Study finds US paediatric medical errors kill 4500 children a year
  • Voluntary Anonymous Reporting of Medical Errors for Neonatal Intensive Care
• The British Journal of Healthcare Computing & Information Management Patient Safety Issue
• Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Patient Safety in the Ambulatory Setting: A Clinician-based Approach
  • Patient Safety, Research, and Evidence: Getting to Improved Systems
  • Characteristics and Circumstances of Falls in a Hospital Setting: A Prospective Analysis
    • Forbes: Patient Education Cuts In-Hospital Fall Risk Forbes
• June Daily Information
• American Medical News June 30, 2004
  • AMA policy encourages national infotech standards
  • Doctors need to take a leading role on electronic medical records
• Wall Street Journal: The future of surgery June 28, 2004
• Human error and systems failure caused IVF mix up June 24, 2004
• IOM: Report Examines Children's Health June 24, 2004
• Fallon Community Health Plan: Patient safety at forefront of new partnership June 23, 2004
• Wall Street Journal: NIH under fire June 22, 2004
• Washington Post: Gingrich pushing "wired" hospitals June 22, 2004
• American Medical News June 22, 2004
  • Expert witness sues critics
  • Simulated hospital center would be first of its kind
  • Minnesota looks for statewide "best practices"
  • Cultural competency available by computer
  • Wisconsin safety-driven hospital under construction
• Boston Business Journal:New Massachusetts physicians practice to use experimental healthcare technology model June 21, 2004
• New York Times: Virus risk at New York hospital underscores wider problem June 21, 2004
• New York Times: Medical journal quandary: How to report on drug trials June 21, 2004
• Cincinnati Business Courier: Surgical robots revolutionize hospital OR June 21, 2004
• New York Times: Doctor's testimony leads to complex legal fight June 20, 2004
• Baltimore Sun: Maryland to introduce center aimed at reducing medical mistakes June 18, 2004
• Baltimore Sun: Striving to reduce medical mistakes June 18, 2004
• ISMP: Problems persist with life-threatening tubing misconnections June 17, 2004
• New York Times: Old patients, hoping to make doctors better June 17, 2004
• HealthLeaders: Payment Obstacles to Hospital, Physician and Patient Telecommunication June 17, 2004
• The Tennessean: Hospitals going digital to boost record system June 16, 2004
• NY Times: Hospital on Long Island May Have Exposed 177 to Viruses June 16, 2004
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Acute Decompensation after Removing a Central Line: Practical Approaches to Increasing Safety in the Intensive Care Unit June 15, 2004
• AMA: New AMA Ad Calls for Senate to Act Now on Patient Safety June 15, 2004
• Case Western Reserve University: One of the world's foremost centers for patient safety to be created June 15, 2004
• AHRQ: Patient Safety Research Coordinating Center: Request for Proposals, Amendments 2 and 3: Access to Coordinating Center Web Site June 15, 2004
• American Medical News  June 14, 2004
  • Letters - Kennedy: The Senate should pass error reporting bill immediately; and others
  • Canadian hospitals study patient safety
  • Emergency departments strained by patients better seen elsewhere
  • Neckwear as germ-spreader? More than a stain on your tie
• Archives of Internal Medicine June 14, 2004
  • Defending the Practice of Medicine
  • Provider and Hospital Characteristics Associated With Geographic Variation in the Evaluation and Management of Elderly Patients With Heart Failure
• USA Today: Medical malpractice battle gets personal June 14, 2004
• AP: Bush signs bill aimed at making health care more affordable June 14, 2004
• ABC: A Matter of Speaking June 14, 2004
• Cejka Search White Paper: The New Healthcare Leadership Culture: Key Senior Leadership Traits For The Success Of The 21st Century Hospital June 14, 2004
• AHRQ: Health Information Technology Resource Center (HITRC): Request for Proposals June 14, 2004
• AHRQ: AHRQ Makes Access to Hospital Data Easier June 14, 2004
• Disruptive' physician tells her story to AMA Pittsburgh Post Gazette June 12, 2004
• Cleveland Plain Dealer: Ohio medical school gets grant for center focused on reducing medical errors June 11, 2004
• Health officials probe death of Red Deer, Alta., patient given wrong drug Canadian Press June 11, 2004
• Patient dies after being dosed with wrong drug Canadian Press June 10, 2004
• AHRQ: Patient Safety Challenge Grants: Fact Sheet June 10, 2004
• AHRQ: Patient Safety Improvement Corps—An AHRQ/VA Partnership June 10, 2004
• More Access to High-Quality Mammography Needed to Reduce Cancer Deaths June 10, 2004
• Philadelphia Inquirer: AMA seeks the bad news with the good news about drugs June 9, 2004
• Detroit Free Press:Wellness program works at Detroit health system June 8, 2004
• Michigan Nurses Association: Research Shows Michigan Safe Patient Care Initiatives Save Lives and Money June 8, 2004
• American Medical News June 7, 2004
  • Panel weighs competing views on federal e-prescribing standards
  • Push continues for electronic health records
  • Patients like seeing familiar face on Dr. Robot
  • Speech impediment: Technology getting slow start
• AP/NY Times: Study Examines Deaths at Pediatric ICUs June 7, 2004
• AHRQ: Patient Safety Research Coordinating Center: Request for Proposals, Amendment 1: Responses to Questions  June 7, 2004
• AHRQ: Children in Hospitals Frequently Experience Medical Injuries June 7, 2004
• BMJ: Financial incentives for doctors June 5, 2004
• ACC: Outpatient Utilization of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors Among Heart Failure Patients After Hospital Discharge June 4, 2004
• CDC: Cancer Mortality Surveillance --- United States, 1990--2000 June 4, 2004
• HealthLeaders: And in This Corner, Bush and Brailer June 3, 2004
• ISMP: Oops, sorry, wrong patient!Applying the JCAHO “two-identifier” rule beyond the patient’s room June 3, 2004
• Denver Post: Bar code meets its match June 3, 2004
• Annals of Internal Medicine June 1, 2004
  • Effects of Training in Direct Observation of Medical Residents' Clinical Competence: A Randomized Trial
  • Effects of a Quality Improvement Collaborative on the Outcome of Care of Patients with HIV Infection: The EQHIV Study
  • Creating the Evidence Base for Quality Improvement Collaboratives
  • Quality of Care and Quality of Training: A Shared Vision for Internal Medicine?
• New York Times: Patients asked to tell doctor their problems in less than a minute June 1, 2004
• Dermatology Nursing: Basic concepts to prevent medication calculation errors (Clinical Skills) June 1, 2004
• May Monthly Information
• Center for Studying Health System Change: Paying for Quality: Health Plans Try Carrots Instead of Sticks
  • Press Release: Health Plans Offer Financial Rewards for Higher Quality Care
• Health Affairs: Profiling The Quality Of Care In Twelve Communities: Results From The CQI Study
  • RAND: The First National Report Card on Quality of Health Care in America
  • NY Times: Study Finds Widespread Problem of Inadequate Health Care
  • USA Today: Study: Tech tools could improve U.S. health care May 4, 2004
• Health Affairs: How Does The Quality Of Care Compare In Five Countries?
  • Yahoo/Reuters: Studies Show U.S. Spending Doesn't Get Best Health
• HealthLeaders
  • Inside Johns Hopkins
  • A Perfect Record
  • Hospital Quality
• CDC: Characteristics of Emergency Departments Serving High Volumes of Safety-net Patients: United States,2000
• National Consensus Project: Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care
• Nelson Publishing: Bar Coding at the Bedside
• May Daily Information
• RWJ: Tracking Health Plan Enrollees' Race and Ethnicity May 31, 2004
  • Press Release
  • AHIP: More Health Insurance Plans Addressing Gaps in Health Care Experienced by Minorities in U.S.
  • Wall Street Journal: To close gaps in care, more health plans ask about race
• American Medical News May 31, 2004
  • Medical students to begin taking clinical skills test
  • Quest for a quality bonus: How best to position yourself for a benefit
• BMJ: Hospital admissions, age, and death: retrospective cohort study May 29, 2004
• USA Today: Bush advocates electronic medical record-keeping May 28, 2004
• AHRQ: Preliminary Measure Sets for the National Healthcare Quality Report and the National Healthcare Disparities Report: Request for Comments May 28, 2004
• Los Angeles Times: Safety, staffing issues at now-closed California hospital raised a year ago May 27, 2004
• Surgeon General: The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General May 27, 2004
• Washington Post: Sick About Health Care May 26, 2004
• Pitfalls of Converting Practice Guidelines Into Quality Measures: Lessons Learned From a VA Performance Measure JAMA May 26, 2004
  • Quality patient care not met by blanket screenings, warns UCSF/SFVAMC physician
• Richmond Times Dispatch: Doctors utilizing new form of help May 25, 2004
• Miami Herald: ER doctors urged to treat hypertension May 25, 2004
• AHRQ: Task Force Recommends Vision Screening for Children Younger Than 5 Years Old May 25, 2004
• Times Dispatch: Quality-Improvement Standards: Patient Safety Affects Businesses' Bottom Line May 22, 2004
• ISMP: The high cost of medications: A bitter pill to swallow May 20, 2004
• Miami Herald: Health technology czar eyes a tech-savvy system May 20, 2004
• AHRQ: New AHRQ Tool Helps Hospitals with Emergency Management Plans May 20, 2004
• HealthLeaders: The Four Cs of Physician EMR Adoption May 19, 2004
• Wall Street Journal: Higher co-pays may take toll on health, study says May 19, 2004
• Mckesson: Centra Health Selects McKesson, Converts to Electronic Environment; IT Transformation to Enhance Safety, Improve Patient Experience May 19, 2004
• Annals of Internal Medicine May 18, 2004
  • Clarifying Adverse Drug Events: A Clinician's Guide to Terminology, Documentation, and Reporting
  • Reducing Resident Work Hours: Unproven Assumptions and Unforeseen Outcomes
  • Benefits of Resident Work Hours Regulation
  • The Effect of Work Hour Regulations on Personal Development
• Wall Street Journal: Doctors turn to apologies as tool to fight lawsuits May 18, 2004
• Mercury News: Hidden signs of poor heart health May 18, 2004
• AHRQ: Significant Increases in Drug Co-Payments May Reduce Patients' Use of Needed Medications  May 18, 2004
• Information Week: E-Health On The Horizon May 17, 2004
• American Medical News May 17, 2004
  • Performance measures offer a head start
  • Rx isn't just medication anymore
  • NIH clinical trial initiative: Agency reaches out to primary care
  • Exam room comedy best used with caution
  • "Network for men" sends patients to the doctor
• BMJ May 15, 2004 (The entire issue is dedicated to health and information systems)
  • Prescribing safety features of general practice computer systems: evaluation using simulated test cases
  • Computers Miss Errors in Drug Prescribing - Study
• Washington Post: Healing Health Care May 15, 2004
• Senator Edward M. Kennedy: Statement On The Introduction of The Health Care Modernization, Cost Reduction, And Quality Improvement Act May 13, 2004
• HealthLeaders: Knowing What Nurses Want May 12, 2004
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: More medical students are shunning time-demanding specialties May 11, 2004
• New York Times: How patients can use new access to medical records May 11, 2004
• Boston Globe: Doctor, what language are you speaking? May 11, 2004
• MSNBC: Robot doctor gets thumbs-up from patients May 11, 2004
• Reuters/Yahoo: U.S. uninsured healthcare cost put at $125 billion May 11, 2004
• AP: Dutch patients start using online nursing May 11, 2004
• Archives of Internal Medicine: Patient Characteristics and Experiences Associated With Trust in Specialist May 10, 2004
• Richmond Times Dispatch: Putting a premium on health May 10, 2004
• HealthLeaders: Newt Gingrich: Getting Healthcare Online May 10, 2004
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Hearing set for Pennsylvania bill to help medical whistleblowers May 10, 2004
• Reuters/Yahoo: New Generation of Nurses 'Too Posh to Wash' May 10, 2004
• Wall Street Journal: One company's radical prescription for healthcare costs May 10, 2004
• American Medical News May 10, 2004
  • President launches push for electronic records; funds for project still in question
  • From the AMA - Patient safety legislation -- an urgent call to action
  • The next big thing: Public health's biggest concerns
  • New Jersey law expands reporting of medical errors
• AP/New York Times: Telemedicine on rise in U.S. military May 10, 2004
• BMJ May 8, 2004
  • Lessons from developing nations on improving health care
  • Transparency: a modern essential
  • Ergonomics in medicine and surgery
• Associated Press: English group studies American health insurers to get ideas May 8, 2004
• Alliance for Health Reform Using Information Technology to Improve Healthcare Quality" May 7, 2004
• HHS: Harnessing Information Technology to Improve Health Care May 6, 2004
• ISMP: Bicillin products: Syringe enhancements may help to prevent IV administration May 6, 2004
• Wall Street Journal: Doctors and patients given incentives to stick to tested treatment guidelines May 6, 2004
• National Women’s Law Center: Making the Grade on Women’s Health: a National and State-by-State Report Card May 6, 2004
  • Press Release
  • Reuters/MSNBC: U.S. women's health care gets failing grade
• HHS: Secretary Thompson, Seeking Fastest Possible Results, Names First Health Information Technology Coordinator May 6, 2004
  • Reuters/Yahoo: Federal government to push for paperless hospitals
• Pasadena Star News: Program reduces emergency room visits May 6, 2004
• ACP Details Connection between Improving Quality of Care through Physician Performance Measures and Advances in Electronic Health Records May 5, 2004
  • The Use of Performance Measurements to Improve Physician Quality of Care
  • Enhancing the Quality of Patient Care Through Interoperable Exchange of Electronic Health Care Information
  • The Paperless Medical Office: Digital Technology's Potential for the Internist
• NY Times: Operation for Obesity Leaves Some in Misery May 4, 2004
• NY Times: Hospitals Turn Off the Pagers and Find the Doctor Faster May 4, 2004
• Reuters: Obstetricians Told to Talk, Write More Clearly May 3, 2004
• Miami Herald: Miami hospital seeks to cut costs, keep quality May 3, 2004
• HealthLeaders: Disease Management for Medicare's Millions May 3, 2004
• Boston Globe: How Do You Make a Better Doctor? May 2, 2004
• BMJ May 1, 2004
  • Optimal search strategies for retrieving scientifically strong studies of diagnosis from Medline: analytical survey
  • Genetics, race, ethnicity, and health
• April Monthly Information

• Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine

  • Webcast on ICU Safety

  • Best Practices and Safety Issues in the ICU

  • Executive walkarounds uncover safety issues and send a positive message to staff

• JCAHO: Comment on JCAHO's Proposed Safety Goals for 2005

• Quality and Safety in Healthcare: Learning from malpractice claims about negligent, adverse events in primary care in the United States

  • American Medical News: American Underlying data questioned: Error study focuses on primary care

  • AAFP: Malpractice Claim Reports Can Help Direct Prevention of Medical Errors, Study Says

• Annals of Family Medicine: The Identification of Medical Errors by Family Physicians During Outpatient Visits

• Materials Management Magazine: Practice, practice

• ACHP: Variations in Healthcare- Implications for Quality Improvement

• HealthLeaders
  • Chief Nursing Officers: A Seat at the Table
  • Performance Power
  • Getting Better
• HIMSS: Impact of President Bush's State of the Union address on Computerization of Health Records
• Health Data Management
  • PDAs for Nothing and Your Apps for Free
  • Patient Safety Still Driving I.T. Demand
  • Crunching Data: The Key to Six Sigma Success
  • CPOE Vendors See Systems Taking Off
• Healthplan
  • Managing Patient Care Transitions: A Report of the HMO Care Management Workgroup
  • Wye River Group Gets Americans Talking About Health Care Change
• Managed Healthcare Executive
  • Health insurers get proactive in fighting obesity
  • Leapfrog from a payer's perspective
• April Daily Information
• Baltimore Sun: Maryland hospital report notes troubles  April 30, 2004
• NY Times: Operating in a Vacuum May 3, 2004
• NY Times: Hospital Where 13 Were Killed Prepares to Face Lawsuits April 30, 2004
• Baltimore Sun: Bush pushes health proposal in Maryland April 28, 2004
• Leapfrog Group: Leapfrog Offers Consumers Expanded Quality and Safety Information April 27, 2004
• CDC: CDC Boosts External Research to Protect Americans' Health April 27, 2004
• New York Times: Rise in angina is price for better cardiac care April 27, 2004
• NY Times: Plea Deal Near for Nurse in 30 Deaths April 27, 2004
• NY Times: Time Heals, but It's a Luxury Physicians and Patients Rarely Get April 27, 2004
• AP/NY Times: Hospitals Take Simple Steps Vs. Infection April 27, 2004
• Washington Post: The da Vinci mode April 27, 2004
• Chicago Tribune: Boy hurt at birth to receive $15 million from Illinois hospital April 27, 2004
• Washington Post: 'Triaging out' by crowded ERs stirs controversy April 27, 2004
• New York Times: Take two aspirins, e-mail me tomorrow April 27, 2004
• NPSF: Patient Safety Leaders to Meet in Boston Discuss Culture Change to Improve the Safety of Patients April 26, 2004
• American Medical News April 26, 2004
  • Helping loved ones at time of patient's death
  • Ambitious study focuses on children's health, illness
• Democrat and Chronicle: Strong liver transplant unit fined April 24, 2004
• Portland Business Journal: Local doctors slow to adopt records technology April 23, 2004
• Wall Street Journal: Report card to rank hospitals on safety April 22, 2004
• ISMP: Improvised drug delivery: A cause for concern April 22, 2004
• ISMP: Hazard warning with BRETHINE and METHERGINE  April 22, 2004
• Baltimore Sun: Maryland hospital chief quits in shakeup April 21, 2004
• Wall Street Journal: Doctors' continuing education system needs to change April 20, 2004
• Associated Press/Washington Post: Medicare to Launch Chronic Care Programs April 20, 2004
• Annals of Internal Medicine April 20, 2004
  • Health Care System Chaos Should Spur Innovation: Summary of a Report of the Society of General Internal Medicine Task Force on the Domain of General Internal Medicine
  • Starting a Conversation about the Future of Internal Medicine
  • Generalism as Intention
  • Working Together--That's Innovation!
  • Making It Possible for General Internal Medicine To Survive
  • Reforming Payment for Primary Care: Making It Happen
• American Medical News April 19, 2004
  • More Medicare services, quality not always linked
  • Letters - Pay-for-quality concept deserves to be judged on its merits; and others
  • Low health literacy is pervasive barrier to care
• Philadelphia Inquirer: Cleanliness is goal of new COO of Philadelphia hospital April 19, 2004
• HealthLeaders: 7 Tips for Creating the New American Hospital April 19, 2004
• NY Times: Why Were Doctors Afraid to Treat Rebecca McLester? April 18, 2004
• NY Times: The End of Primary Care April 18, 2004
• BMJ: Hospitals' star ratings and clinical outcomes: ecological study April 16, 2004
• HealthLeaders: What Every HCO Should Know about CRM April 16, 2004
• The Commonwealth Fund: Comprehensive Report on Quality of Children's Care April 15, 2004
  • Reuters/MSNBC: Report: U.S. children get uneven health care
• Businesswire: Tenet Appoints Regional Chief Medical Officers to Promote Quality Care and Patient Safety at its Hospitals April 15, 2004
• Akron Beacon Journal: Doing no harm April 15, 2004
• Washington Post: As Tech Spreads, Hippocrates Dawdles April 14, 2004
• eHealth Initiative: Groundbreaking eHealth Initiative Report Offers Good Medicine For Ailing U.S. Healthcare System April 14, 2004
  • Full Report
  • The Wall Street Journal: E-mail prescriptions could save money, reduce errors, report says
• Indianapolis Star: Make-believe 'shoppers' test health care providers April 14, 2004
• New York Times: Patients hesitant to make decisions about their own treatment April 13, 2004
• USA Today: Hospital bills spin out of control April 13, 2004
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Project uses computers to analyze nursing care April 12, 2004
• HealthLeaders: Herbert Pardes: The State of eHealth April 12, 2004
• Archives of Internal Medicine April 12, 2004
  • The Epidemiology of Prescribing Errors
  • Keeping Your Patient With Heart Failure Safe: A Review of Potentially Dangerous...
  • Declining Length of Hospital Stay for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Postdischarge Outcomes
  • How Can We Improve Adherence to Blood Pressure–Lowering Medication in Ambulatory Care?
  • Patients' Interest in Reading Their Medical Record: Relation With Clinical and Sociodemographic Characteristics and Patients' Approach to Health Care
    • Medscape: Patients Want to Read Their Medical Records
• American Medical News April 12, 2004
  • Med staff-hospital fights turn nasty and more litigious
  • Defense of truth never rests in medical liability debate
  • Ensuring a fair deal for all in the health care system
    • Full Report
• HealthLeaders: Herbert Pardes: The State of eHealth April 12, 2004
• NY Times: Medicare Web Site to Shine Light on Drug Prices April 12, 2004
• Associated Press/The Ledger: Doctors feel heat for taking patients' sides in malpractice cases April 12, 2004
• Washington Post: As Obesity Surgeries Soar, So Do Safety, Cost Concerns April 10, 2004
• BMJ: Lessons from the central Hampshire electronic health record pilot project: issues of data protection and consent April 10, 2004
• Boston Business Journal: Blue Cross to explore standardized records April 9, 2004
• Wall Street Journal: To fix healthcare, hospitals take tips from factory floor April 9, 2004
• ISMP: Burns in MRI patients wearing transdermal patches April 8, 2004

• ISMP: Confusion caused by several different products with DULCOLAX brand name April 8, 2004

• The Commonwealth Fund: Working Minorities Lack Access to Private Insurance April 8, 2004
• Los Angeles Times: California report faults hospital in two patient deaths April 8, 2004
• IOM: Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion April 8, 2004
  • Yahoo!/Reuters: Health Info Too Complex for Many in U.S. -Report
  • AHRQ: Literacy and Health Outcomes
  • AHRQ: New Evidence Report Illustrates Links Between Health Literacy and Health Care Use and Outcomes
• Health Affairs: Medicare Spending, The Physician Workforce, And Beneficiaries’ Quality Of Care April 7, 2004
  • Dartmouth College: New study: states with higher medicare spending offer lower quality care Greater numbers of primary care doctors yield more effective care and lower spending
• Seattle Times: At-home therapy helps seniors beat the blues April 7, 2004
• The Commonwealth Fund: Multicultural Leadership Forum Sets Agenda  April 7, 2004
• NY Times: Many Hospitals Resist Computerized Patient Care April 6, 2004
• Medscape: Electronic Prescribing on Medicare Fast Track -- McClellan April 5, 2004
• Record Eagle: Munson implements measures to boost patient safety April 5, 2004
• American Medical News April 5, 2004
  • Family physicians told to evolve so specialty can survive: Recommendations from a two-year study include a more patient-centered,
    evidence-based practice, documented on an electronic medical records system
  • Study looks at in-office errors by family physicians
  • Some resident work-hour limits could change
• Indianapolis Star: Blueprint unveiled for effort to share patient histories April 1, 2004
• Ophthalmology Times: Patient safety, reimbursement, liability top issues in 2004 April 1, 2004
• Baltimore Business Journal: Finding a cure for what ails them April 1, 2004
• March Monthly Information
• HIMSS: Healthcare CIO: Final Report
• Annals of Family Medicine: The Identification of Medical Errors by Family Physicians During Outpatient Visits
  • UC study finds frequent medical errors in local outpatient visits
• HealthLeaders:The New Incentive Plan
• Healthcare IT News
  • Kennedy says his plan will transform healthcare system
  • FDA bar code rule could fuel interest
• Health Affairs: What Is Driving Hospitals’ Patient-Safety Efforts?
• IOM: Improving Medical Education: Enhancing the Behavioral and Social Science Content of Medical School Curricula
• AHIP: A Commitment to Improve Health Care Quality, Access, and Affordability (PDF)
  • Press Release: America’s Health Insurance Plans Chart a Course for Improving Quality, Access and Affordability
• March Daily Information
• AHRQ: Conference Summary-- Improved Patient Safety: Sharing Issues, Successes, and Challenges Across States March 31, 2004
• Minnesota Hospital Association: Metro hospital systems pledge to improve medication safety March 31, 2004
• NHS (UK): Information and Data Quality in the NHS March 30, 2004
  • BMJ: Data collection is poor because staff don't see the point
• USA Today: Doctors heal the system March 30, 2004
• Star-Ledger: Health insurer is sharing feedback with hospitals March 30, 2004
• Computer Weekly: 'Only risk is not to take risk' says NHS chief March 30, 2004
• AP/Newsday: Senate approves bills requiring doctors to report errors March 29, 2004
• AP/Kansas City Star: Nurse shortage can be hazardous to health March 29, 2004
• HealthLeaders: Dennis Barry: A Quarter-Century as a Hospital Leader March 29, 2004
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Drug dispensing goes high tech March 27, 2004
• The Business Review: Hospitals phase in bar-coded medication regimen March 26, 2004
• The Business Journal of Kansas City: Saint Luke's opts out of local quality effort March 26, 2004
• Baltimore Sun: More dubious test results discovered at hospital March 26, 2004
• Denver Business Journal: State's hospitals beginning to reveal quality of care March 26, 2004
• ISMP: Intimidation: Practitioners speak up about this unresolved problem (Part II) March 25, 2004
• Wall Street Journal: Doctor 'scorecards' are proposed in healthcare quality drive March 25, 2004
• IOM: Improving Medical Education: Enhancing the Behavioral and Social Science Content of Medical School Curricula March 24, 2004
• The Patriot Ledger (Special Report): Retarded at Risk March 20-23, 2004
• CMS: Medicare Trustees Release Annual Report March 23, 2004
• The Commonwealth Fund: Commonwealth Fund/Nuffield Trust International Quality Improvement Meeting March 23, 2004
• CMS: Demonstrations Projects under the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) March 22, 2004
• BMJ March 20, 2004
  • Preventing falls in elderly people
  • Effectiveness of targeted falls prevention programme in subacute hospital setting: randomised controlled trial
  • Interventions for the prevention of falls in older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials
• AHRQ: Partners in Prevention March 19, 2004
• AHRQ: Testimony of Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., Director, AHRQ on Health Care Quality Initiatives Before the Subcommittee on Health of the House Committee on Ways and Means March 19, 2004
• San Diego Tribune/AP: Feds lift warning against troubled L.A. hospital March 19, 2004
• The Denver Business Journal: Web site offers consumers quick access to health info March 19, 2004
• CDC: CDC Releases Latest Data on Emergency Department Visits March 18, 2004
• AHRQ: Ambulatory CAHPS®: Fact Sheet March 18, 2004
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: 'Disruptive' doctors an issue in California March 18, 2004
• Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy and Health Affairs: "Delivery Systems Matter! Improving Quality and Efficiency in Health Care" March 17, 2004
• The Center for Studying Health System Change: Health Plans Redeploy Targeted Care Restrictions March 17, 2004
• Seattle Times: Good medicine begins with a good doctor-patient relationship March 17, 2004
• Los Angeles Times: Repeated drug errors cited at Los Angeles hospital March 17, 2004
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Health Plan Members' Views about Disclosure of Medical Errors March 16, 2004
• The Star-Ledger: Patient Safety Act sails through Assembly March 16, 2004
• The Ledger: Special Report on Superbugs  March 15, 2004
  • Antibiotics Before Surgery Can Help Prevent Infection
  • Hospitals Battling Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
  • Infection Left Local Man With Lingering Disability
  • Repairs Can Make Hospitals Dirty
  • Hospital Patients Need to Speak Up 
• American Medical News March 15, 2004
  • Teaching hospital crafts model safety program
  • Study tracks learning via online CME
  • Campaign targets needlestick injuries
• HealthLeaders: Herzlinger: From Market-Driven to Consumer-Driven Healthcare March 15, 2004
• Washington Post/AP: Doctors Start Dieting and Working Out March 14, 2004
• BMJ March 13, 2004
  • Use of hospitals, physician visits, and hospice care during last six months of life among cohorts loyal to highly respected hospitals in the United States
  • Commentary: Getting a grip on clinical variations in hospital services
  • Discharge destination and length of stay: differences between US and English hospitals for people aged 65 and over
• Washington Post: Obesity Fight Now Personal for HHS Chief March 12, 2004
• The Center for Studying Health System Change: Confidence Waning in Competition as Health Care System Cure March 12, 2004
• Chicago Tribune: Doctors flee insurance costs, Illinois March 12, 2004
• Baltimore Sun: Hospital was told of faulty HIV tests March 12, 2004
  • AP/Yahoo: Patients May Have Gotten Wrong HIV Results
• ISMP: Intimidation: Practitioners speak up about this unresolved problem (Part I) March 11, 2004
• University of Michigan: U-M study shows national medical privacy law makes health research harder and more expensive March 11, 2004
• Wall Street Journal: National push behind putting medical records online March 11, 2004
• Kaiser Women's Health Survey : Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Women's Health Coverage and Access to Care March 10, 2004
• USA Today: Heart plan may reduce death risk for elderly March 10, 2004
• Philadelphia Inquirer: Pa. bypass operations are fewer but better, study finds March 10, 2004
• Richmond Times Dispatch: From bedside to boardroom March 9, 2004
• Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Hospitals struggle for best technology March 9, 2004
• Los Angeles Times: Not exactly a quiet zone March 8, 2004
• American Medical News March 8, 2004
  • FDA targets medication errors by requiring bar codes on drugs
  • Professionalism starts in med school
  • Tort reform debate best served by truth
  • Peer review: The case for absolute immunity
• Gleaner: Local hospital takes extra steps to avoid medical errors March 7, 2004
• BMJ March 6, 2004
  • Efficiency, equity, and NICE clinical guidelines
  • What's the E for EBM?
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Compromise approved on reporting infections March 5, 2004
  • Consumers Union: Pennsylvania Hospital Infection Rate Reporting Weakened
  • Associated Press: Tracking Hospital Infections Low Priority
• HealthLeaders: Price for Performance March 5, 2004
• Journal Sentinel: A healthy dose of computers March 4, 2004
• Knight Ridder Newspapers: Patients are own best prescription for preventing medical errors March 4, 2004
• AHRQ: AHRQ's Patient Safety Initiative, Building Foundations, Reducing Risk (Interim Report to the Senate Committee on Appropriations) March 3, 2004
• USA Today: More Insurers Deny Coverage For Weight-Loss Surgery Rapid Proliferation, Patient Safety Cited March 3, 2004
• HealthLeaders: View From On High Misty for Some at HIMSS March 2, 2004
• American Medical News March 1, 2004
  • Safety reporting now in Senate's hands
  • Education, progress focus of patient safety week
  • North Carolina board claims boost in doctor discipline
  • Performance measures may be part of recertification
• The Baltimore Sun: The high stakes of drug names March 1, 2004
• VHQC: VHQC Celebrates Hospital Quality Improvements: Hospitals Statewide Improve Patient Outcomes March 1, 2004
• February Monthly Information
• HealthLeaders: Quality: Telling All
• FPM: Making Evidence-Based Medicine Doable in Everyday Practice
• AAHP-HIAA: One Patient, Many Places: Managing Health Care Transitions
  • Health Plans and Providers Can Improve the Care of Patients Who Experience Transitions Across Healthcare Settings
• Governing: A Case of Neglect: Why Health Care Is Getting Worse, Even Though Medicine Is Getting Better
• February Daily Information
• NY Times: Through Gaps in System, Nurse Left Trail of Grief February 29, 2004
• The News Journal: Medical-error information lacking February 29, 2004
• BMJ February 28, 2004
  • Nothingness: the role of journals
  • National reporting system for medical errors is launched
• HealthLeaders: The Hospital's Strategic Advantage in a Consumer-Driven Marketplace February 27, 2004
• ISMP: Broselow tape: Measuring the changes from 1998 to today February 26, 2004
• New York Times: Pre-Op Warm-Up: A Few Video Games February 26, 2004
• The Ethical Force Program (AMA): Consensus Report on Fair Coverage Decisions February 25, 2004
• Joint Economic Committee: The Performance and Potential of Consumer-Driven Health Care February 25, 2004
• The Baltimore Sun: Hopkins group had pattern of errors February 25, 2004
• LA Times: For days, wrong drug given to Los Angeles hospital patient February 25, 2004
• Washington Post: Medical Liability Curbs Blocked February 25, 2004
• FDA Rule Requires Bar Codes on Drugs and Blood to Help Reduce Errors February 25, 2004
  • Washington Post: Bar Codes Favored to Cut Hospitals' Drug Errors
• NY Times: Johns Hopkins Settles in Toddler's Death February 24, 2004
• FREEP: U-M hospital's goal: Safest in the nation Improving labeling, records is part of effort February 24, 2004
• NY Times: When Your Doctor Goes to the Beach February 24, 2004
• VHQC: Three Nationally-Recognized Organizations Create A Collaboration to Improve Heart Care in Virginia Hospitals February 24, 2004
• CITL: Standardized Healthcare IT Could Save $87B Per Year" February 23, 2004
• American Medical News February 23, 2004
  • The quality challenge: How best to raise the bar for medical care
  • Fair pay a sounder approach than "pay for quality"
  • States ask drug firms to report gifts to individual physicians
• HSC: Leapfrog Patient-Safety Standards a Stretch for Most Hospitals February 23, 2004
  • Full Report
  • The Leapfrog Group: Leapfrog Group welcomes New Study - Center for Studying Health System Change
• U-M Health System earns top scores in Michigan hospital quality report February 23, 2004
• NY Times: A Year Later, Efforts Are on to Avoid Another Botched Transplant February 23, 2004
• SF Chronicle: UCSF doctors see epidemic of fatal medical mistakes February 22, 2004
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Hospitals embracing information technology February 22, 2004
• The Herald-Sun: 'I was really angry with God' February 21, 2004
• Alameda Times-Star: Patients must push hospitals to avoid medical errors February 21, 2004
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Their job: Cure the health care crisis February 19, 2004
• New Haven Register: Medical error experts say politics plays its part February 19, 2004
• NCQA: Public Comment Period February 19, 2004
• The Tennessean: Top-flight communication can help patients' health February 18, 2004
• San Jose Mercury News: For students, a rare front-row view of medicine February 17, 2004
• Roanoke Times: Changes in medical shorthand reduce risk February 14, 2004
• ISMP: Safety issues with adding lidocaine to IV potassium infusions February 12, 2004
• Michigan Health and Safety Coalition: Michigan Hospital Information Available on Web Site February 12, 2004
• Knight Ridder Newspapers: When surgical instruments are left behind - in patients February 11, 2004
• CDC: U.S. Life Expectancy at All-Time High, But Infant Mortality Increases February 11, 2004
  • Washington Post: U.S. Infant Mortality Rate Rises 3%
• NY Times: Healing an Error-Prone Medical System February 10, 2004
• Star Ledger: Hospital error blamed for tot's death February 10, 2004
• Archives of Internal Medicine February 9, 2004
  • The Escalating Pandemics of Obesity and Sedentary Lifestyle: A Call to Action for Clinicians
    • LA Times: Doctors Urged to Discuss Patient Fitness
  • Inappropriate Medication Prescribing for Elderly Ambulatory Care Patients
  • AP: Seniors Given Dangerous Drugs, CDC Warns
• American Medical News February 9, 2004
  • Web site rates quality of care at Texas hospitals
  • AMA Foundation invests in health of America
  • From the AMA - Lawyers who play the liability lottery must be stopped
• Star-Telegram: Medical E-Files February 9, 2004
• Richmond Times Dispatch: Targeted health data given February 8, 2004
  • Virginia Center for Healthy Communities
• NY Times: Whose Problem Is Health Care? February 8, 2004
• Washington Post: Business, Science Clash at Medical Journal February 7, 2004
• BMJ February 7, 2004
  • Investigating sudden unexpected deaths in infancy and childhood and caring for bereaved families: an integrated multiagency approach 
  • The sudden death of a child
  • Changing clinical behaviour by making guidelines specific
• The Baltimore Sun: Nursing spiritual needs with words of comfort February 6, 2004
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Legislation takes on medical secrecy February 6, 2004
• The Chronicle: A year later, Santillán mishap still unresolved February 6, 2004
• The Oregonian: Oregon tackles medical errors February 6, 2004
• IOM: In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health Care Workforce February 5, 2004
• The Commonwealth Fund: Worlds Apart: A Four-Part Film Series on Cross-Cultural Healthcare February 5, 2004
• UCSF: New Book Examines Epidemic of Medical Mistakes February 5, 2004
  • CNN: Doctor: Huge number of medical 'fumbles'
  • Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes Official Site
• Internet Broadcasting Systems: Children Not Immune To Medical Errors February 4, 2004
• American Medical News February 2, 2004
  • Government pushes for electronic medical record standards
  • Education called key to acceptance of performance ratings
• Times Dispatch: A medical error, a life of suffering February 2, 2004
• Information Week: Time To Break Old Habits February  2, 2004
• Salt Lake Tribune: Utah hospitals conflicted over Medicare law; Utah hospitals conflicted over new law February 1, 2004
• Philadelphia Inquirer: When surgical instruments are left behind - in patients  February 1, 2004
• Times Dispatch: Doctors seek protection from suits February 1, 2004
• January Monthly Information
• Managed Care
  • Cardiologists Call Collaboration Heart of Effort To Improve Care
  • Transparency Called Key To Uniting Cost Control, Quality Improvement
• Managed Healthcare Executive
  • Six Sigma enters the healthcare mainstream
  • Employers expand consumer choice through collaboration
• Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine
  • Cover Story: What insurers know about your hospital
  • Walking a Safer Path
  • Wired at the Bedside
• NHS (UK): Building a safer NHS for patients Improving Medication Safety A report by the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer
  • BMJ: Report calls for strategies to reduce medication errors
• Knowledge@Wharton Newsletter: Smoking or Spending Too Much? Don’t Count on Remedy Marketers to Help
• IHI: Continuous Improvement
• Commonwealth Fund: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Looking at the Quality of American Health Care Through the Patient's Lens
• HealthLeaders
  • Getting On the Same Page
  • Obesity: Weighing Our Options
  • CPOE: The Promise and the Pitfalls
    • Trinity Health System
    • Ohio State University Medical Center
    • Montefiore Medical Center
• Trustee: The American Hospital Quest for Quality Prize
• January Daily Information
• BMJ January 31, 2004
  • Should surgeons take a break after an intraoperative death? Attitude survey and outcome evaluation
  • Changing practice
• ISMP: Evidence-based medicine doesn’t preclude common sense January 29, 2004
• AHRQ: Hospital CAHPS Stakeholder Committee January 29, 2004
• AHA: Health Benefits Worth Up to Three Times More than Money Invested January 28, 2004
  • Full Report
• Healthcare Enterprise: Execs: IT Is Key To Better, Cheaper Health Care January 27, 2004
• US News and World Reports: The doctor gets a checkup Firms aim to cut medical costs by `managing' diseases January 26, 2004
• American Medical News: Tennessee doctors to get paid for "doing the right thing" January 26, 2004
• BMJ January 24, 2004
  • Comparison of three methods for estimating rates of adverse events and rates of preventable adverse events in acute care hospitals
  • Chronic disease care
  • Rethinking management of chronic diseases
  • Randomised equivalence trial comparing three month and six month follow up of patients with hypertension by family practitioners
  • Exercise training meta-analysis of trials in patients with chronic heart failure (ExTraMATCH)
  • Can the NHS learn from US managed care organisations?
• Healthleaders: Health Plans Consider Making The Business Case For Prevention January 23, 2004
• CDC: Obesity Costs States Billions in Medical Expenses January 21, 2004
• AHRQ: New Data Available That Show Relationship Between Diabetes, Obesity, and Chronic Disease January 21, 2004
• JAMA: Surveillance of Medical Device–Related Hazards and Adverse Events in Hospitalized Patients January 21, 2004
• The Courier-Journal: Lawsuits say unsanitary conditions led to infections for 3 at Jewish Hospital January 21, 2004
• The Olympian: Other Views: Focus should be on quality medical care, not lawsuits January 21, 2004
• Washington HealthBeat: Clinton Pushes Infotech As Cure For What Ails Health System January 20, 2004
  • Remarks of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on The Health Information for Quality Improvement Act
• Rocky Mountain News: Rewards for quality hospitals January 20, 2004
• Press of Atlantic City: The future of medicine arrives in Middle Twp January 20, 2004
• Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Hospitable treatment January 19. 2004
• Journal Times Online: A prescription for safety: Survey says Medication system getting safer January 19. 2004
• American Medical News January 19. 2004
  • Lectures top doctors' list of CME choices The least effective format for learning is the most popular, one study says.
  • Frustrated and fighting back: Ob-gyn sues West Virginia trial lawyers
  • CDC launches online journal of chronic diseases | Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy
  • Business ethics: Yes, they exist
• The Ledger: Infection-Cleaning Link Not Simple January 18. 2004
• Tribune Democrat: Hospitals see fewer deaths January 18, 2004
• BMJ January 17, 2003
  • Using industrial processes to improve patient care
  • Not everything that counts can be counted; not everything that can be counted counts
  • Surgical quality: review of Californian measures
• APhA: Drug Names, Medication Errors, and Marketing Strategy January 16, 2004
  • ScoutNews: Viagra: Rhymes With Niagara
• AHRQ: Improving Quality in Child and Adolescent Health—Research and Tools January 16, 2004
• AHRQ: New Study Estimates Potential Savings Gained by Expanding Use of Beta Blockers in Heart Failure Patients January 16, 2004
• CBC: Hospital hygiene cuts severe infections by 80 per cent January 16. 2004
• HealthLeaders: Realities and Boundaries in Revitalizing Primary Care Part 3: 2004 and Beyond January 16, 2004
• ISMP: Template for disaster? Fatal injection into wrong port of implanted infusion pump  January 15, 2004
• ACP: The State of the Nation’s Health Care: A Report from America’s Internists on Opportunities to Improve Medical Care Through Better Coverage, Less Red Tape, Better Use of Health Information Technology and Improved Access to Primary Care Doctors January 15, 2004
• NY Times: Real Estate Family Sues Westchester Hospital in Son's Death January 15, 2004
• HealthLeaders: Paul Tang: A New Standard for Health Data January 15, 2004
• Baltimore Sun: Hopkins Hospital sued in death of girl, 2 Malpractice claim based on improper IV solution January 14, 2004
• JAMA: Procedural Volume as a Marker of Quality for CABG Surgery  January 14, 2004
  • Boston Globe: Criteria hit for rating hospitals Volume of procedures may not be best measure
• IOM: Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations January 14, 2004
  • USA Today: Panel urges universal health coverage by 2010 Those without insurance hit 43.6 million in 2002
• Commonwealth Fund: The Role of the Federal Government in Improving Health Care Quality January 13, 2004
• NPR: A Revolution in Care January 13, 2004
• American Medical News: Technology valued, but implementing it into practice is slow Cost and time are cited as reasons computer technology has not been quick to catch on with physicians January 12, 2004
• MDPH: Creates New Patient Safety Center To Reduce Medical Errors January 12, 2004
  • Boston Globe: Push for patient safety honors writer January 12, 2004
• Knight Ridder Newspapers: Health care beckons reform January 12, 2004
• Washington HealthBeat: Commitments Made To Local Efforts To Cross "Quality Chasm" January 12, 2004
• Managed Care Features and Chronic Conditions: Effects on Quality of Care and Patent Outcomes  January 9, 2004
• JAMA: Winners and Losers January 7, 2004
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Patient Safety Is Not Enough: Targeting Quality Improvements To Optimize the Health of the Population January 6, 2004
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Malpractice Reform Must Include Steps To Prevent Medical Injury January 6, 2004
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• Health Care Insider: Risk Control Gaining Provider Importance January 5 2004
• American Medical News: The National Quality Forum is setting standards for primary care January 5 2004
• American Medical News: Error-proofing your office: Rules and protocols to help reduce risk January 5 2004
• Boston Globe: Needless appendix surgery cited January 5, 2004
• Modern Healthcare: Shuttling toward a safety culture January 5, 2004
• Boston Globe: The Revolutionary January 4, 2004
• Washington Post: Familiar Faces Promote Health Care January 4, 2004
• Tennessean: Computerized ordering cuts medication errors January 4, 2004
• BMJ January 3, 2004
  • The quality of randomised controlled trials may be better than assumed
  • Assessing the quality of research