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Until our world decides that every human matters, that everyone has a right to food and safety and freedom and healthcare and equality, it is the obligation of those privileged to have food and safety and freedom and healthcare and equality to fight tirelessly for those who do not.
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L.R. Knost
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These are not ordinary times where we play politics and juggle with the safety of the society. These are the times that demand prompt decisions and utter responsibility towards not just the self but our kind – the humankind.
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Abhijit Naskar
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With a focus on creativity in schools and nurturing future job talent, many Danes are getting a leg-up right to the summit of the triangle. By contrast, some developed countries haven’t even got past the second rung of ‘safety’ – with no healthcare or job security (hello, USA).
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Helen Russell (The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country)
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open immigration can’t exist with a strong social safety net; if you’re going to assure healthcare and a decent income to everyone, you can’t make that offer global
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Paul Krugman
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Lean is about the total elimination of waste and showing respect for people.
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Mark Graban (Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction)
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There is no justifiable reason why any man, woman or child on this planet should ever have to endure a single day without access to nutritious food,clean water,adequate shelter,healthcare,education and safety.
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Psychologists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, found that the better educated and wealthier a nation is, the less likely its population is to believe in a higher being. The Global Index of Religion and Atheism also assessed that poverty was a key indicator of a society’s tendency towards religion – so that poorer countries tend to be the most religious. The one exception to the rule? America. But in the strongly religious USA, despite the country’s wealth, there’s no universal healthcare, little job security, and a flimsy social welfare safety net. This means that the USA has a lot more in common with developing countries than she might like to think. Researchers from the University of British Columbia suggest that people are less likely to need the comfort of a god if they’re living somewhere stable, safe and prosperous.
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Helen Russell (The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country)
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I use “anticapitalist” because conservative defenders of capitalism regularly say their liberal and socialist opponents are against capitalism. They say efforts to provide a safety net for all people are “anticapitalist.” They say attempts to prevent monopolies are “anticapitalist.” They say efforts that strengthen weak unions and weaken exploitative owners are “anticapitalist.” They say plans to normalize worker ownership and regulations protecting consumers, workers, and environments from big business are “anticapitalist.” They say laws taxing the richest more than the middle class, redistributing pilfered wealth, and guaranteeing basic incomes are “anticapitalist.” They say wars to end poverty are “anticapitalist.” They say campaigns to remove the profit motive from essential life sectors like education, healthcare, utilities, mass media, and incarceration are “anticapitalist.”
In doing so, these conservative defenders are defining capitalism. They define capitalism as the freedom to exploit people into economic ruin; the freedom to assassinate unions; the freedom to prey on unprotected consumers, workers, and environments; the freedom to value quarterly profits over climate change; the freedom to undermine small businesses and cushion corporations; the freedom from competition; the freedom not to pay taxes; the freedom to heave the tax burden onto the middle and lower classes; the freedom to commodify everything and everyone; the freedom to keep poor people poor and middle-income people struggling to stay middle income, and make rich people richer. The history of capitalism—of world warring, classing, slave trading, enslaving, colonizing, depressing wages, and dispossessing land and labor and resources and rights—bears out the conservative definition of capitalism.
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Ibram X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist)
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Growing up, those of us who had to put a hyphen before "American" got scoffed at for sending money home to cousins in the old country or supporting aging parents here on green cards. But you used to shake your head and tell me how, back home, nobody put their parents into nursing homes or let their kin go hungry. The same thing lives on among Sami's queer and trans friends of color, he tells me, crowdfunding for medical care and housing online, or in the group chats he tells me about where friends help one another escape abusive relationship or housing crises with safety planning and couches to sleep on. We take care of one another because no one else will, eh says. But every time is a gamble.
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Zeyn Joukhadar (The Thirty Names of Night)
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Until I felt the tenuousness of my own safety net, I didn’t understand that most don’t have access to basic healthcare, savings or stable familial support. I’d been raised to believe that comfort was the result of hard work or innate intellect, but I was starting to understand that fulfillment of these basic human needs was tied to a person’s body, bloodline, and the origins of their birth. Papa’s wealth had made me feel entitled to a level of security that no one is owed or guaranteed. I had a simplistic understanding of the world and how it worked because it worked well enough for me, and it was only when it stopped working for me that I began to think about the ways in which it failed to work for others.
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Prachi Gupta (They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us)
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At the very least, to set our healthcare workers, patients, and patient caregivers up for success, we must modernize the systems that guide their work and enable their voices to be heard—especially when they see opportunities to prevent harm and improve care environments.
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Heidi Raines (Shared Voices: A Framework for Patient and Employee Safety in Healthcare)
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Poor health was not just the result of random acts, bad luck, bad behavior or unfortunate genetics. Deliberate public policy decision about housing, education, parks and streets were the key drivers of racial differences in mortality. Crime kept people off the streets and limited their ability to exercise. The lack of grocery stores limited dietary choices. The lack of primary care doctors and specialists in these communities made chronic disease care more difficult. The degradation and loss of hospital services in these communities affected hospital-based outcomes. … The chronic underfunding of critical health services at Cook County Hospital and other safety-net providers contributed to these poor outcomes as well. The deleterious impact of social structures such as urban poverty and racism on health has been called 'structural violence.
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David A. Ansell (County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital)
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Gradually, however, the liberal story expanded its horizons, and at least in theory came to value the liberties and rights of all human beings without exception. As the circle of liberty expanded, the liberal story also came to recognize the importance of communist-style welfare programs. Liberty is not worth much unless it is coupled with some kind of social safety net. Social-democratic welfare states combined democracy and human rights with state-sponsored education and healthcare. Even the ultracapitalist United States has realized that the protection of liberty requires at least some government welfare services. Starving children have no liberties.
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Yuval Noah Harari (21 Lessons for the 21st Century)
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My loneliness humbled me. It sounds embarrassingly ignorant now, but until I felt the tenuousness of my own safety net, I didn’t understand that most don’t have access to basic healthcare, savings, or stable familial support. I’d been raised to believe that comfort was the result of hard work or innate intellect, but I was starting to understand that fulfillment of these basic human needs was tied to a person’s body, bloodline, and the origins of their birth. Papa’s wealth had made me feel entitled to a level of security that no one is owed or guaranteed. I had a simplistic understanding of the world and how it worked because it worked well enough for me, and it was only when it stopped working for me that I began to think about the ways in which it failed to work for others. —
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Prachi Gupta (They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us)
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This is not a story which denies trans identities; nor that argues trans people deserve to lead anything other than happy lives, free of harassment, with access to good healthcare. This is a story about the underlying safety of an NHS service, the adequacy of the care it provides and its use of poorly evidenced treatments on some of the most vulnerable young people in society. And how so many people sat back, watched, and did nothing.
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Hannah Barnes (Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children)
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Many of us in healthcare entered the profession because we wanted to help, heal, and serve. At our core, we have compassion, empathy, and a drive to help people live their best lives. Recognizing and implementing actions to prevent patient and employee harm has the greatest potential effect on the quality of care delivered in our health care system, just as preventative care and wellness efforts slow or stop the progression of disease.
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Heidi Raines (Shared Voices: A Framework for Patient and Employee Safety in Healthcare)
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Prostitution is not exactly a reputable business over there either, even though the girls actually have to pay taxes on their earnings, and submit to regular health check ups. Even the prostitutes have universal healthcare over there. The benefit of legal prostitution is obvious: tax income for the city, healthier girls, and safety. In Amsterdam, each girl has an alarm button next to her bed that she can press if one of her "customers" tries to rape or hurt her. The police will arrive within minutes and protect the girl from harm.
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Oliver Markus Malloy (Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Going to New York (How The Great American Opioid Epidemic of The 21st Century Began, #1))
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Psychologists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, found that the better educated and wealthier a nation is, the less likely its population is to believe in a higher being. The Global Index of Religion and Atheism also assessed that poverty was a key indicator of a society's tendency towards religion - so that poorer countries tend to be the most religious. The one exception to the rule? America. But in the strongly religious USA, despite the country's wealth, there's no universal healthcare, little job security, and a flimsy social welfare safety net. This means that the USA has a lot more in common with developing countries than she might like to think.
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Helen Russell (The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country)
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Please remember to follow advice from credible healthcare professionals regarding personal hygiene and safety. It’s important listen to professionals but also refrain from panicking. We’re going to get through this by working together.
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Kerry Hamm (Chief Complaint: Can't Find the Toilet Paper (A Collection of Reader-Submitted Medical Stories))
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But in the strongly religious USA, despite the country’s wealth, there’s no universal healthcare, little job security, and a flimsy social welfare safety net. This means that the USA has a lot more in common with developing countries than she might like to think. Researchers from the University of British Columbia suggest that people are less likely to need the comfort of a god if they’re living somewhere stable, safe and prosperous. This helps to explain why Denmark and her Scandi cousins Sweden and Norway regularly rate among the most irreligious in the world. Scandinavians don’t have to pray to a god that everything’s going to be OK – because the state has this sorted. In other words, Danes don’t have so much left to pray for. And because there isn’t a big culture
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Helen Russell (The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country)
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The Jews did not “take Palestine.” There was no Palestine for the taking. There was no state, no united governance, not much industry, or a healthcare system, or agriculture, economic or education systems. There was certainly no democracy, equality, safety, or prosperity for the people living there.
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Noa Tishby (Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth)
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The company's journey into the healthcare sector not only reflected a commitment to immediate pandemic needs but also signaled a long-term dedication to public health. QYK Brands invested in research and development to enhance the effectiveness of its healthcare products, ensuring they met the highest standards of safety and quality.
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Travel Tips for the First Summer Vacation with a Baby
Introduction
Travelling with your child can be both exhilarating and distressing especially if it is your first summer vacation with your baby. The summers can especially be daunting for the health of your child. Hence, the best childcare expert in Chandigarh recommends you prepare beforehand and always keep yourself ready, and follow summer health tips for kids. If you are planning to take your first summer vacation with your baby, here is all that you need to know.
The best paediatrics specialist doctors at sector 44 recommend the below travel tips to ensure your baby’s safety:
Keep Your Expectations Minimum
Of course, it is your first time out with your kids and you may be super excited to show them the world. Keep in mind, however, that there is more work involved in taking your baby out than traveling as a couple. With babies, you need to keep everything handy and ensure that they are fed on time. Moreover, plan your trip in a way that does not hamper your sleep routine.
The Paediatricians at Motherhood Chaitanya, Chandigarh suggest adjusting your expectations in a way that does not hamper your fun and ensures that you take good care of your baby.
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Dr. Neeraj Kumar
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The moment he spoke in Telugu with them, something in the room changed. There was a new sense of comfort in the air, a sense of ease and safety. It was the feeling of assurance that came with being surrounded by their own people.
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Snigdha Nandipati (A Case of Culture: How Cultural Brokers Bridge Divides in Healthcare)
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Dr. Ron Westrum described information flow as a “prime variable in creating safety, but also it is an indicator of organizational functioning.”19 This was based on studying human factors in system safety in complex and risky industries, including aviation and healthcare. Westrum asserted that “When information does not flow, it imperils the safe and proper functioning of the organization…and second, information flow is a powerful indicator of the organization’s overall functioning.”20
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Gene Kim (Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification)
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The world didn’t owe anyone anything—not a good life, not healthcare, not even safety.
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Kyla Stone (Nuclear Dawn #1-5: The Post-Apocalyptic Box Set)
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The most gifted healers are those who are continually and actively doing their own inner work behind the scenes.
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Laurie E. Smith
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Employment drug testing is a critical practice that helps businesses maintain a safe and productive environment. It ensures that employees are not using substances that could impair their judgment, performance, or safety at work. In industries where precision and safety are key, such as construction, healthcare, and transportation, regular drug testing reduces the risk of accidents and enhances overall workplace efficiency.
Employers can implement employment drug testing during the hiring process or conduct random tests for current employees. This not only helps in detecting potential substance abuse but also serves as a preventive measure, deterring employees from using drugs. Additionally, it helps companies comply with legal regulations, avoiding costly lawsuits or fines related to workplace safety violations.
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In the words of David Kilcullen—former special adviser for counterinsurgency in George W. Bush’s administration and chief counterterrorism strategist for the U.S. State Department—the most important thing governments can do is to “remedy grievances and fix problems of governance that create the conditions that extremists exploit.” If America does not change its current course, dangers loom. In the case of the United States, the federal government should renew its commitment to providing for its most vulnerable citizens, white, Black, or brown. We need to undo fifty years of declining social services, invest in safety nets and human capital across racial and religious lines, and prioritize high-quality early education, universal healthcare, and a higher minimum wage. Right now many working-class and middle-class Americans live their lives “one small step from catastrophe,” and that makes them ready recruits for militants. Investing in real political reform and economic security would make it much harder for white nationalists to gain sympathizers and would prevent the rise of a new generation of far-right extremists.
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Barbara F. Walter (How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them)
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Solution #4: DELAY HEP-B VACCINATION UNTIL A PRE-TEEN YEAR. This is not a vaccine for infants. Hepatitis B vaccine should not be administered to infants directly after birth, unless the mother is infected with this virus and could pass it along to the child. All pregnant women should be screened for hep B infection. Recommended age of hep B vaccination should be changed to a preteen year just before high school. Notify the parents/guardians and mandate that a warning label be placed on hep B vaccines indicating aluminum levels within the vaccine exceeds FDA safety levels for parenteral aluminum, which may result in aluminum toxicity.
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Stephen Heartland (Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma: Vaccines, Drugs, and Healthcare in the United States)
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India has tens of thousands of NGOs, including local arms of global charities and homegrown groups, working on causes including the status of women, urban safety, human rights, environmental protection, healthcare, agriculture and clean energy.
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Anonymous
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Currently, the wealthy who have no pre-existing conditions can afford high-quality health care, while the poor and sick are relegated to hoping for and negotiating whatever health care safety net might exist in their area. This neoliberal form of capitalism structuring health care in the United States has led to those with the highest burden of sickness being simultaneously those with the least access to care.
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Seth Holmes
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Clinical handovers are high-risk situations for patient safety. Errors lead to delays in diagnosis and treatment, unnecessary tests and treatments, incorrect patient treatment, increases in the length of hospital stay, patient complaints, and malpractice claims.
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Carmel Sheridan (The Mindful Nurse: Using the Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to Help You Thrive in Your Work)
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Although the handover report is crucial to ensuring patient safety and continuity of care, it is surprising that most training programs neglect to focus on or develop this skill.
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Carmel Sheridan (The Mindful Nurse: Using the Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to Help You Thrive in Your Work)
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W.A. supported fair wages, even opposing wage reductions when copper prices fell, and as a result he didn’t suffer from strikes. He also offered model healthcare for workers, and when Daly opposed a law requiring safety cages in the mines, Clark supported it—even if only for political advantage. He also supported voting rights for women.
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Bill Dedman (Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune)
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Pennsylvania's Religious Freedom Protection Act of 2002 (RFPA), removed a number of categories from its reach, including criminal offenses; motor vehicles; licensing of health professionals; the health or safety of individuals in facilities operated under the public welfare code; the safe construction and operation of health-care facilities; health and safety in construction; and mandatory reporting of child abuse.30
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Marci A. Hamilton (God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty)
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The Australian union movement called an 'illegal' general strike in 1976, when Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's government was trying to destroy our embryonic universal healthcare system. That strike brought the country to a standstill. Fraser backed down, and what became Medicare remains. The same people who disagree [with strike action] may also want to reflect on this the next time they enjoy a leisurely weekend, or are saved from an accident by workplace safety standards, or knock off work after an eight-hour shift. Union members won all these conditions in campaigns that were deemed 'illegal' industrial actiona at the time. These union members built the living standards we all enjoy. They should be celebrated and thanked for their bravery and sacrifices, not condemned and renounced.
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Sally McManus (On Fairness)
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A Supreme Court decision (Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc., 552 US 312, 2008) protected devices from most lawsuits. It exempts the companies from litigation if the FDA agreed on the device’s effectiveness and safety during the approval process. When the drugmakers have issues, they may have to defend lawsuits, but this Supreme Court decision protects the appliance manufacturers.
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Robert A. Yoho (Butchered by "Healthcare": What to Do About Doctors, Big Pharma, and Corrupt Government Ruining Your Health and Medical Care)
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No one knew how many people were hurt by negligent care—that is, substandard care.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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How many people were harmed by medical treatment in hospitals? What percentage was caused by errors ? By negligence ? Of those harmed by negligent care, how many sued? What were the costs of medical injury —not just for those harmed by bad care, but for all patients, including those who suffered nonpreventable injuries? How were these costs paid for? All was unknown. All was potentially knowable.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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several studies of overuse of healthcare services and was leading a study of underuse.
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I wanted to work on quality improvement; injury and costs were clearly quality issues. At the time, I had not thought much about medical errors
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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States required hospitals to report deaths but rarely investigated their causes. The Joint Commission asked hospitals to report “sentinel events” (serious injuries), but few hospitals did. Surgical departments had M&M meetings, but neither other departments nor the hospitals kept tabulations or continuing records of iatrogenic injuries. Medical injury was largely invisible, and hospitals and doctors liked it that way.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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We finally settled on “adverse event .” We spent many hours debating its exact definition and ultimately agreed on “an unintended injury that was caused by medical management rather than the patient’s underlying disease.” The important point was to distinguish harm caused by treatment from harm caused by disease, independent of whether there was an error or negligence . We knew that making this judgment would be difficult for doctors, as it indeed proved to be.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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The most common source of injury caused by treatment in the hospital, of course, is a surgical operation,
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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We would focus on adverse events that could potentially trigger a malpractice suit. These were injuries that resulted in some degree of disability, temporary or permanent, including death, or were sufficiently severe to prolong the hospital stay.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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In our sample of 30,121 records, we found that 1133 patients had suffered an adverse event , which computed to a serious injury rate of 3.7%, a bit lower than what the Mills study found. Twenty-seven percent of AEs were judged to be due to negligent care. From these data we estimated that in 1984 there were 98,689 adverse events in New York hospitals, of which 13,451 (13.6%) were fatal [3].
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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Adverse event rates were higher in large academic medical centers than in community hospitals, but the fraction due to negligence was much lower.
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more than two-thirds of the injuries seemed to be potentially preventable.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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documentation issues were more common in small private hospitals, where records were less standardized and notes were sparse because only the patient’s physician writes progress notes. In teaching hospitals, by contrast, there are multiple notes by residents, medical students, and nurses as well.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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On balance, we believed that our rates, shocking as they were, underestimated the true extent of harm . In fact, later studies would bear this out.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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then nationwide 1.3 million patients were injured by medical care in American acute care hospitals that year, and 180,000 died
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This meant that of the projected 180,000 deaths each year, more than 120,000 were potentially preventable.
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The results of the study were published in two papers in the New England Journal of Medicine in February 1991 [3, 4].
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we estimated that the total lifetime cost of adverse events in New York State in 1984 was $3.8 billion
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Although it was designed to address malpractice , its far greater significance came from the revelation of the horrendous extent of harm that resulted from routine medical care.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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The Harvard Medical Practice Study confirmed what smaller studies had shown earlier—that nearly 4% of patients in acute care hospitals suffered a significant injury from their medical treatment.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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The Harvard Medical Practice Study confirmed what smaller studies had shown earlier—that nearly 4% of patients in acute care hospitals suffered a significant injury from their medical treatment. What was shocking, and previously totally unrecognized, was that two-thirds of those injuries resulted from errors
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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James Reason, of the University of Manchester, UK, is without doubt the person who has contributed the most to the understanding of the causes and prevention of errors. His book, Human Error (1990), is the “Bible” of error theory.
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Latent errors create “accidents waiting to happen.” Latent errors result from poor system design [1, 4].
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From this distinction between active and latent errors came the fundamental principle that underlies essentially all safety efforts: errors are not fundamentally due to faulty people but to faulty systems. To prevent errors, you have to fix the systems.
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Swiss cheese” model
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Charles Perrow , professor of sociology at Yale, studied risks and accidents in large organizations. His book, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies,
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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Donald Norman, director of The Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego, is the author of the delightful book, The Design of Everyday Things,
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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It seemed inescapably clear that healthcare needed to take a systems approach to medical errors . We needed to stop punishing individuals for their errors since almost all of them were beyond their control, and we had to begin to change the faulty systems that “set them up” to make mistakes. We needed to design errors out of the system. I had no doubt we could do that.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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There is no greater responsibility for any leader than to protect the safety of their workforce.
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Richard A. Stone
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But more was needed if patient safety was to be recognized as a true discipline. Accordingly, in 2011, NPSF established the Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety . The Board set appropriate educational and training requirements and developed a qualifying examination for its credential, Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS). In recognition that patient safety must be a team effort with broad responsibility, certification is open to interested parties across multiple disciplines. Within 4 years 1100 individuals were certified. To meet the educational needs of students and professionals, NPSF created a comprehensive online Patient Safety Curriculum. By 2018, over 5000 had taken this online course, and 3000 individuals held the CPPS credential. In
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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the NPSF rolled ahead. Patient safety was beginning to be talked about widely. In the report of the President’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry , led by Don Berwick , head of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) , reduction of error was one of six recommended national aims, and NPSF was cited. JCAHO revised their sentinel event policy to make reporting voluntary, and the Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research (AHCPR) (later renamed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) identified patient safety as a priority.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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that care should be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. The aims resonated with all and were quickly embraced. They became the centerpiece of the recommendations in the final report, Crossing the Quality Chasm
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The report on quality ( Crossing the Quality Chasm) would be targeted to healthcare professionals and would spell out the theoretical concepts and details of what was needed to improve quality of care overall, based on the six aims .
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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The report was titled To Err Is Human [4]. It “made the case” for patient safety, explaining the science of error-making and the theoretical and practical evidence for human-factors -based systems changes.
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To Err Is Human explained the concept of using a systems approach based on human factors principles and proclaimed that application of this methodology could have a profound effect. It boldly called for a 50% reduction in medical harm in 5 years.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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The IOM urges Congress to pass legislation extending peer review protections to data related to patient safety and quality improvement that are collected and analyzed by healthcare organizations for purposes of improving safety and quality. (We all agreed this was essential if we were ever to get people to talk about error in the current litigious environment.)
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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What got attention was the estimate that there were up to 98,000 preventable deaths a year due to medical errors . That number also headlined the newspaper stories the next day.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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It’s not bad people, it’s bad systems.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) This survey initiative began in 1995, before the Agency became involved in patient safety, in response to the recognition that quality of care issues that are important to consumers, such as communication skills of providers and ease of access to healthcare, were often overlooked. The obvious way to find out about them was to ask patients. The Agency began to fund, oversee, and work closely with a consortium of research organizations to conduct research on patient experience and develop the survey. The survey has since been expanded to ask patients to evaluate their experiences with health plans, providers, and healthcare facilities regarding care coordination , shared decision-making, and patient engagement . The survey is now widely used by healthcare organizations, health plans, purchasers, consumer groups, and accreditation organizations to evaluate providers and improve quality and safety of care. It has been a major factor in teaching clinicians and hospitals to be more aware of patient’s concerns and to engage them more meaningfully in their care. It has magnified their voice
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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In the end PSIs may have done more harm than good over the years. Meyer agrees. He considers them “the worst thing I ever did” at AHRQ .
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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We defined “serious, avoidable adverse events” as patient harms that hospitals can reasonably be expected to prevent 100% of the time.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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However, the group did not agree with Ken’s interest in calling them “never events,” undoubtedly rooted in the firmly held doctrine in medicine that you cannot say that anything “never” happens. So it was decided that the list should be officially titled “Serious Reportable Events.” Nevertheless, they quickly began to be referred to as “never events.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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Later, CMS used the list to deny payments for Medicare patients. This was not our intended use, and the matter was vigorously debated and discouraged during the Committee’s deliberations
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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Ninety-six hospitals completed the collaborative . They reduced the mean rate of CLABSI /1000 catheter days from 7.7 to 1.4 in 18 months.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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The other was Atul Gawande , a surgical resident who I had gotten to know during his year at the Harvard School of Public Health . Atul later developed the surgical checklist for WHO and created Ariadne Labs, an influential collaboration of innovators, implementers, and healthcare leaders focused on quality and safety.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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Further analysis showed that disclosure of the AE to the patient by the medical team only occurred 40% of the time. Disclosure was more likely if additional treatment was needed and less likely if the AEs were preventable (an error ). Patients were twice as likely to rate the quality of care high when there was disclosure [4]. High patient participation in their care was associated with fewer AE (49%) and higher likelihood that patients would rate the quality of their care good or excellent [5
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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The Advisory Commission’s 1998 report, “Quality First: Better Healthcare for All Americans,” brought together the evidence for quality problems and the broad consensus for reform [1]. It concluded that quality problems were pervasive and by no means confined to managed care systems. The report was aimed at Congress and policy-makers in Washington and made clear recommendations, including a call for a “Patient Bill of Rights,” which the Clinton administration enacted. Otherwise, even though it got a lot of attention, the report resulted in little action.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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A focus on safety might also enlist the support of the medical profession, which had become defensive about efforts to improve quality. When challenged, doctors would typically counter with “My patients are different.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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Safe: the reporter must not be at risk of losing their job or being disciplined for reporting a mistake they have made.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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Simple: people will not report if the process is too complicated (a long form) or takes too much time.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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Productive: reporting must lead to a response by the organization to address the issue reported.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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Suddenly PSIs were viewed not as tools for improvement, but as instruments of punishment—a complete inversion of what we were trying to do in patient safety.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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WebM&MTo engage and inform physicians, AHRQ initiated WebM&M, using the familiar format of mortality and morbidity rounds to make available analysis of real-world medical error cases by experts, monthly.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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But the need for support of health IT was clear. Hospitals and doctors were being required to implement electronic health records (EHRs) and were having serious problems.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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AHRQ created a website, psnet.ahrq.gov, with the latest news, research, legislation, and tools for patient safety.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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which found that nearly 4 percent of hospitalized patients suffered a serious injury, of which 14% were fatal and 69% were due to errors and were thus preventable.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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These efforts were dramatically successful: they reduced the mortality of anesthesia 90%, from 1 in 20,000 to 1 in 200,000, within a decade
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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George realized that my paper would be a red flag for many doctors, who were very sensitive to anything that might make them look bad . Their institutional arm was the AMA , which saw its primary responsibility as the defense of physicians’ pride and privilege. Naively, I thought the paper offered so much in the way of opportunity to reduce harm to patients that it would be rapidly embraced by doctors. Here was the way they could reduce harm to their patients and decrease the risk of malpractice suits.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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On the other hand, within days of the publication of Error in Medicine, I received letters from friends and others congratulating me and thanking me for the paper.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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The Lehman case was a life-changing event for DFCI , which underwent a major reorganization under the leadership of Jim Conway to dramatically improve its safety and ultimately achieve the lowest medication error rate in the nation.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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The paper also influenced the thinking of future leaders in patient safety. Within a year, Jerod Loeb , from the Joint Commission, and Mark Eppinger of the Annenberg Center decided to convene a conference on medical error . Despite the displeasure with Lundberg at the AMA , its legal counsel, Marty Hatlie , convinced the leadership to shift its efforts from tort reform to error prevention . That ultimately led the AMA to found the National Patient Safety Foundation .
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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Most importantly, however, the paper influenced Ken Shine , president of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and its Quality of Care Committee, to make safety a focus of its work in quality of care. (See Chap. 9.) The Committee’s later report To Err is Human [14] was in many ways a detailed explication of the information in Error in Medicine, amplified with patient examples and specific recommendations for policy changes. It brought to public attention what the paper brought to the profession
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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We established an investigative team at each hospital and selected 11 nursing units for the study at the 2 hospitals: 5 intensive care units and 6 general, non-obstetric care units. David Bates was the leader of the Brigham team and David Cullen led the MGH team.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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This rate of ADEs , 6.5 for every 100 patients, was astounding! It was almost ten (10) times higher than had ever been reported. And this was at the two flagship teaching hospitals of Harvard, institutions that considered themselves the best in the country!
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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The before-after study at BWH showed that CPOE reduced all medication errors by 83% and ADEs by 17% [4]. The estimated cost saving if the system were implemented hospital-wide was $480,000 per year. The controlled study of pharmacist participation on rounds at the MGH showed a 66% reduction of ADEs caused by errors in prescribing [5]. Finally, we had evidence that systems change worked in healthcare.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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Based on this evidence, the NQF endorsed bar coding , and it has since been adopted as standard practice in hospitals nationwide.
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Lucian L. Leape (Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement)
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Hospitals cannot continue to hemorrhage. For the country as a whole, medical insurance premiums include a surcharge that pays for treating the uninsured. However, if the proportion of uninsured indigent patients exceeds a certain figure, a hospital has no choice but to close. In California alone, the heavy cost of free medicine for foreigners forced no fewer than 60 hospitals to shut down between 1993 and 2003; many others were on the verge of collapse. From 1994 to 2004, the number of hospital emergency rooms in the country as a whole dropped by more than 12 percent.
In May 2010, Miami’s health care system was so strapped, it was considering closing two of its five public hospitals. This would mean laying off 4,487 employees and the loss of 581 acute-care beds. Experts explained that treating uninsured patients had stretched the system to the breaking point.
Houston is a good example of a city whose hospitals are barely making ends meet. In the nation as a whole, about 15 percent of the population has no medical insurance, but Texas, with its large population of Hispanics, has the highest percentage at 24 percent. In Houston, the figure is 30 percent. The safety net cannot accommodate so many people who cannot pay. “Does this mean rationing?” asks Kenenth Mattox, chief of staff at Ben Taub General Hospital. “You bet it does.”
There is such a crush at Houston’s emergency rooms that ambulances often wait for one or two hours before they can even unload patients. The record wait is six hours. Twenty percent of the time, hospitals end up sending patients to other hospitals, and some have died after being diverted. Politicians and businessmen pull strings so friends can cut in line.
Americans who fall sick in Mexico do not get free treatment. The State Department warns that Mexican doctors routinely refuse to treat foreign patients unless paid in advance, and that they often charge Americans for services not rendered.
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Jared Taylor (White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century)
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The corporate controlled government is pursuing policies that will increase the profits of the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries at the expense of the health and safety of the mass population.
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Steven Magee
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In his view, people couldn’t define goodness by mindlessly applying rules.
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Craig Clapper (Zero Harm: How to Achieve Patient and Workforce Safety in Healthcare)
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It [facism] is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas. It is recognizable by its determination to convert all public services to private entrepreneurship, all nonprofit organizations to profit making ones- so that the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears. It changes citizens into taxpayers- so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good. It changes neighbors into consumers- so the measure of our value as humans is not our humanity or our compassion or our generosity but what we own. It changes parenting into panicking- so we vote against the interests of our own children; against their healthcare, their education, their safety from weapons. And in effecting these changes it produces the perfect capitalist, one who is willing to kill a human being for a product (a pair of sneakers, a jacket, a car) or kill generations for control of products (oil, drugs, fruit, gold).
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Toni Morrison (The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations)
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A more recent (2016) estimate of patient harm found that errors and omissions were the third leading cause of mortality in healthcare, accounting for 251,000 deaths each year, or one every two minutes, six seconds.3
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Craig Clapper (Zero Harm: How to Achieve Patient and Workforce Safety in Healthcare)
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It’s not just patients who suffer from accidental harm, but employees. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports the illness and injury data that healthcare administrators submit to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).5
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It is in such vast gray zones that highly reliable healthcare organizations demonstrate that they possess more than just policies and procedures: they have philosophies and cultures.
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Craig Clapper (Zero Harm: How to Achieve Patient and Workforce Safety in Healthcare)
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organizational philosophies and cultures bear on all aspects of performance, including safety, patient experience, technical excellence, and efficiency.
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Craig Clapper (Zero Harm: How to Achieve Patient and Workforce Safety in Healthcare)
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Individuals and teams can’t improve in these areas simply by following new and better rules.
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Craig Clapper (Zero Harm: How to Achieve Patient and Workforce Safety in Healthcare)
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I keep using the term “anticapitalist” as opposed to socialist or communist to include the people who publicly or privately question or loathe capitalism but do not identify as socialist or communist. I use “anticapitalist” because conservative defenders of capitalism regularly say their liberal and socialist opponents are against capitalism. They say efforts to provide a safety net for all people are “anticapitalist.” They say attempts to prevent monopolies are “anticapitalist.” They say efforts that strengthen weak unions and weaken exploitative owners are “anticapitalist.” They say plans to normalize worker ownership and regulations protecting consumers, workers, and environments from big business are “anticapitalist.” They say laws taxing the richest more than the middle class, redistributing pilfered wealth, and guaranteeing basic incomes are “anticapitalist.” They say wars to end poverty are “anticapitalist.” They say campaigns to remove the profit motive from essential life sectors like education, healthcare, utilities, mass media, and incarceration are “anticapitalist.” In doing so, these conservative defenders are defining capitalism. They define capitalism as the freedom to exploit people into economic ruin; the freedom to assassinate unions; the freedom to prey on unprotected consumers, workers, and environments; the freedom to value quarterly profits over climate change; the freedom to undermine small businesses and cushion corporations; the freedom from competition; the freedom not to pay taxes; the freedom to heave the tax burden onto the middle and lower classes; the freedom to commodify everything and everyone; the freedom to keep poor people poor and middle-income people struggling to stay middle income, and make rich people richer. The history of capitalism—of world warring, classing, slave trading, enslaving, colonizing, depressing wages, and dispossessing land and labor and resources and rights—bears out the conservative definition of capitalism.
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Ibram X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist (One World Essentials))
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true safety for women of color requires an end to the “war on drugs,” broken windows policing, and the “war on terror”; the elimination of gender as a marker of access to public space, public benefits, and protections; the removal of police from schools, hospitals, public housing, and health-care settings; and the repeal of “mandatory arrest” and other policies that facilitate the criminalization of survivors of violence; and support rather than violence and criminalization for pregnant people and mothers of color.
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Andrea Ritchie (Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color)
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Solution #1. ELIMINATE PAYOFFS IN CLINICS TO PROMOTE VACCINATIONS. It should be illegal for doctors to accept bonuses or other incentives from insurance or pharmaceutical companies for vaccinating patients. This practice is clearly a conflict of interest.
When you take your child to a doctor, you want them to focus on your child and their health, and not on a yearend bonus some other company is paying to push vaccines. These bonuses/kickbacks provide a monetary incentive to the doctor and their office not related to the patient’s health, which is clearly a conflict of interest, and should be illegal. Without this bonus/kickback in their minds, perhaps the doctors can get back in the business of simply taking care of their patients, answering their questions, and providing them with better overall healthcare. If the pediatric office has no money dangling over them in the form of bonuses/kickbacks, then there should be no incentive to bar entrance to any family who wants to receive healthcare, unless the office is so full that they cannot accommodate new patients. This taking away of the bonus/kickback money will remove prejudice and bias against those who do not want to follow the recommended vaccine schedule, or who question the safety of the vaccines. And thereby, all patients will receive equal healthcare service under the law without bias. After all, isn’t this, shouldn’t this be the goal?
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Stephen Heartland (Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma: Vaccines, Drugs, and Healthcare in the United States)
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The United States could ensure a decent retirement for its elderly without allowing Medicare and Social Security to overwhelm the federal budget. To do so, though, the country would need to address two issues with the programs. First, the American healthcare system is unusually wasteful. The United States today spends about $13,000 per person annually on healthcare, a far higher total than any other country. Canada spends about $8,ooo per person, while France, Germany, and Japan spend closer to $6,000. Some of the American spending has ancillary benefits -- high drug prices effectively subsidize drug development for the rest of the world -- but much of the spending does not. It instead pays for inefficient bureaucracy and care that does not make people healthier.
Second, Medicare, Social Security, and other programs that purport to be part of the safety net devote a significant portion of their budgets to helping well-off Americans. (Housing subsidies are another example.) The universality of the programs was a deliberate part of their design and increased their popularity. But as the country has aged and the programs have grown, universality comes with a big downside: Increasingly, the federal government is prioritizing older adults over children. Even the affluent elderly can receive more government help than impoverished children.
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David Leonhardt (Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream)
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The full picture is of a country that devotes an increasing share of its resources to programs that will not improve life for our children, grandchildren, and beyond. By contrast, investments in education generally create a better future, as do investments in scientific research and a country's productive capacity. The United States has instead shifted money toward the world's most bloated healthcare sector, its largest prison network, and a safety net that often benefits the affluent. . . . We have a budget for a declining nation.
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David Leonhardt (Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream)
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Force Sensor Market: Precision Driving Industry Innovation
The global force sensor market was valued at approximately USD 2.47 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach nearly USD 3.40 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 4.7% .
Key Drivers:
Industrial Automation: The rise of Industry 4.0 and robotics is increasing demand for force sensors in applications like deburring, polishing, and assembly line monitoring .
Automotive Advancements: Force sensors are integral to electric and autonomous vehicles, enhancing safety features and performance metrics .
Healthcare Innovations: Miniaturized force sensors are improving medical devices, including surgical tools and wearable health monitors .
Regional Insights:
Asia-Pacific: Leading in market share, driven by industrial growth and adoption of smart manufacturing .
North America: Experiencing rapid growth due to advancements in robotics and automotive sectors .
Challenges:
Sensor Miniaturization: Developing smaller, cost-effective sensors for compact devices remains a technical hurdle .
Market Volatility: Fluctuating demand across industries can impact production and supply chains .
As industries continue to evolve, force sensors are pivotal in enabling precision, safety, and efficiency across sectors.
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We must have hope in the face of all that is going on, because without it, we will die. We will watch and do nothing while healthcare goes away, while education becomes utterly substandard, while families are ripped apart through deportation and bans, and while safety nets are snatched from the disabled and poor. We will watch and do nothing while this administration commits more and more outrageous injustices and leads us to war and annihilation.
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Alice Wong (Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People)
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Solution #14. BAN CONSUMER DRUG AND VACCINE ADVERTISING. There should be no direct to consumer (DTC) advertising of vaccines and/or drugs. DTC marketing and advertising of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines are not in the public’s interest and should be made illegal. When advertising dollars are at work, then TV stations, newspapers, medical journals, radio stations, and all other commercial media companies become pressured by these Big Pharma companies to displace truth with what will be most profitable to the media company, which means what will benefit their advertisers. The promotion of these products is often deceptive, and predominately shows potential benefits while discounting any adverse effects. Only the United States and New Zealand currently allow these types of ads. The other countries of the world had the foresight to realize that allowing Big Pharma to advertise their products would grant them too much power over us, which they could then abuse. Money which is currently used to promote drugs and vaccines increases the cost of these products, while at the same time limits the money available to do research for the safety of these products. Drug and vaccine advertising does not benefit the public welfare.
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Stephen Heartland (Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma: Vaccines, Drugs, and Healthcare in the United States)
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**AI Technology for Good** is a transformative force, leveraging artificial intelligence to address global challenges such as climate change, healthcare disparities, and poverty. By using AI to optimize resource management, predict environmental changes, and enhance healthcare systems, we can drive positive societal impact and improve quality of life for communities worldwide. Whether through predictive models for disease outbreaks or optimizing energy consumption, **AI technology for good** has the potential to solve complex social issues and create a sustainable future.
**Artificial Intelligence ethics** plays a crucial role in ensuring that AI technologies are developed and deployed responsibly. Ethical considerations like fairness, transparency, and accountability are essential to prevent AI systems from perpetuating biases or violating privacy. AI developers must ensure that algorithms are free from discrimination, are understandable, and operate with clear accountability mechanisms to maintain public trust.
One of the most exciting applications of AI is in **smart cities**. AI is helping urban centers become more efficient, sustainable, and livable. From managing traffic flow and reducing congestion to optimizing energy use and enhancing public safety, AI is central to the development of smart cities. By integrating AI technologies, cities can offer better services, reduce environmental impact, and create a higher standard of living for their residents.
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The Vital Role of Sterilization and Disinfection in Equipment Safety
Sterilization is a cornerstone of healthcare safety, eliminating harmful pathogens from medical tools to prevent infections. From steam autoclaves to UV light, methods like chemical and high-temperature sterilization ensure compliance with global standards.
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use “anticapitalist” because conservative defenders of capitalism regularly say their liberal and socialist opponents are against capitalism. They say efforts to provide a safety net for all people are “anticapitalist.” They say attempts to prevent monopolies are “anticapitalist.” They say efforts that strengthen weak unions and weaken exploitative owners are “anticapitalist.” They say plans to normalize worker ownership and regulations protecting consumers, workers, and environments from big business are “anticapitalist.” They say laws taxing the richest more than the middle class, redistributing pilfered wealth, and guaranteeing basic incomes are “anticapitalist.” They say wars to end poverty are “anticapitalist.” They say campaigns to remove the profit motive from essential life sectors like education, healthcare, utilities, mass media, and incarceration are “anticapitalist.” In doing so, these conservative defenders are defining capitalism. They define capitalism as the freedom to exploit people into economic ruin; the freedom to assassinate unions; the freedom to prey on unprotected consumers, workers, and environments; the freedom to value quarterly profits over climate change; the freedom to undermine small businesses and cushion corporations; the freedom from competition; the freedom not to pay taxes; the freedom to heave the tax burden onto the middle and lower classes; the freedom to commodify everything and everyone; the freedom to keep poor people poor and middle-income people struggling to stay middle income, and make rich people richer. The history of capitalism—of world warring, classing, slave trading, enslaving, colonizing, depressing wages, and dispossessing land and labor and resources and rights—bears out the conservative definition of capitalism.
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Ibram X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist (One World Essentials))
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