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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