Patient Safety Academy

Attend one-day Patient Safety Academy to get the training i need. 

Modeled after the Patient Safety Academy, these one-day events were designed to cover the basic concepts, research basis, and leading-edge thinking that goes into patient and employee safety. The agenda covered the following topics ... 

These cases also provoked an investigation into FDA policies by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a division of the National Academy of Sciences. Criticizing the absence of national reporting requirements, the IOM report suggested that hospitals receiving federal Medicare and Medicaid funds should be required to report to the FDA.54 IOM members also proposed a National Center for Patient Safety that would review drugs on the market and distribute information to physicians and the public. 

Institute of Medicine. Health IT and patient safety building safer systems for better care. The National Academies Press 2012. 

Cooper, J.B. (1994) Towards patient safety in anaesthesia. Annals Academy of Medicine, 23... 

It appears that the modern patient safety movement started in 1991 with the publication of the results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study in the New England Journal of Medicine [2-4], In the study, the medical records of 30,000 patients hospitalized in acute care hospitals in New York State in 1984 were examined. In 1996, the American Medical Association announced the formation of the National Patient Safety Foundation [2], In 1999, the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine released its report entitled "To Err Is Human Building a Safer Health System" [5]. The report stated that medical errors are causing 44,000-98,000 preventable deaths annually in the United States. In 2001, the United States Congress appropriated 50 million per year for patient safety research to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) [2],... 

Aspden, R, Corrigan, J., Wolcott, J., et al.. Editors, Patient Safety Achieving a New Standard for Care, National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2004. 

To Err Is Human spawned legislation at the state level that requires the development of voluntary and mandatory reporting systems, with legal protections (Prager, 2000). To date, twenty states have legislated the implementation of mandatory reporting systems the National Academy of State Health Policy writes informative reports on patient safety initiatives that are under way at the state level. 

Academy of Allergy and Immunology reported two 10-year safety reports involving 424 and 85 patients. These emphasized the safety of long-term treatment with cromoglicate. The only serious adverse effects were three cases of pulmonary infiltration and eosinophiha (SEDA-6, 171). In another series of 375 patients, only eight experienced adverse reactions these included dermatitis with pruritus, myositis, and gastroenteritis (SEDA-4, 120). 

Hitt E. Efficacy and safety evaluation of 12 weeks extended-release hydrocodone/acetaminophen treatment in patients with chronic low back pain by prior opioid use. American Academy of Pain Medicine, 2008. 

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