Lucy Letby case: more babies face harm unless NHS ends ‘defensive leadership’ | Lucy Letby | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/27/lucy-letby-case-more-babies-face-harm-defensive-leadership-nhs-ombudsman

#Letby
#NHS
#NHSManagement
#WhistleBlower
#Safety
#PatientSafety

https://labornotes.org/2023/08/something-must-change-new-jersey-nurses-strike-safe-staffing

#NewJersey: 1,700 #nurses on #strike, #HealthInsurance ends at end of month, supporting families on #unemployment

#Capitalism #profit #union #ClassWar #Exploitation #PatientSafety #HealthCare #HealthCareWorkers #BurnOut

Key findings:
- age and sex had a significant effect on the 99th percentile of serum hs-cTnT concentration in both cohorts
- hospitalization is associated with higher hs-cTnT levels in in most age groups than in individuals in the general population, even in patients without diagnosed or suspected heart disease
- age- and sex-specific hs-cTnT reference values may be beneficial for hospitalized patients

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#cTnT #Troponin #AMI #AMPEL #CDSS #SexBias #PatientSafety

As a recent article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine argued, the use of masks for protection may be one of the “major lessons learned with enduring value” during the pandemic. The authors of this article, who work at the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, say that “for #PatientSafety, it is not time to take off masks in health care settings.”

Great new blog post : How being part of a Root Cause Analysis can contribute to your CPD Home program

https://www.oslercpdhome.com.au/blog/root-cause-analysis-for-cpd-home

#juniordoctors #juniordocs #tipsfornewdocs #CPDHome #CPDHomes #meded #medtwitter #FOAMed #FOAMcc #ausmed #ausdocs #medstudents #patientsafety #medmastodon

More disappointing news re #Minnesota #nursing #PatientSafety #healthcare

Evidence of the political power of the heavily consolidated corporate healthcare oligopoly in Minnesota. And it’s insulting that the *consolation prize* is funding research on why nurses are leaving the bedside. Nurses know why. It’s the thing this bill refuses to fix — staffing ratios. (They did remove the Mayo carve-out for what’s left of the bill.)

https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/05/22/nurse-staffing-bill-is-gutted-in-final-hours-of-minnesotas-legislative-session/

"But the pandemic clearly worsened patient safety, with Leapfrog's new assessment showing increases in hospital-acquired infections, including urinary tract and drug-resistant staph infections as well as infections in central lines ‒ tubes inserted into the neck, chest, groin, or arm to rapidly provide fluids, blood or medications."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/05/03/are-hospitals-getting-safer-new-report/70158933007/?_hsmi=256782465&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--TWj8q9rdd8OuGhHQ-xRGghV1qhz9Hbu5F-M_dMT6uU2cPiwfSfmLfbLpu9v1ox35MnvA4LAemY4FzJguL8TzT96Bcdg

#publichealth #medicalerrors #QI #patientsafety

Digitally mature hospitals perform better on safety, according to HIMSS study

https://www.digitalhealth.net/2023/04/himss-study-suggests-digitally-mature-hospitals-perform-better-on-safety

#DigitalHealth #hospitals #HIMSS #PatientExperience #PatientSafety

Why asking “silly” questions in medicine is always worth it: a physician's perspective on open communication in residency

#AskAway #OpenCommunication #PatientSafety

George Tewfik is an anesthesiologist.

https://youtube.com/shorts/dkIQesJLA_A

Listen here: https://kevinmd.com/podcast

Thank you @kevinmd for publishing my latest personal essay: The insurance denial process: one oncologist's fight against a broken system

I strive to show the reality behind the scenes for all #MedMastodon right now

#FixPriorAuth #priorauthorization #healthcare #insuranceindustry #patientsafety #patientcare #patientexperience #physicianburnout #moralinjury

https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/04/the-insurance-denial-process-one-oncologists-fight-against-a-broken-system.html

Starting to copy over my most read threads from the bird site so I can delete them there and direct people here. Mostly #HumanFactors #patientsafety related content for new followers.
Apologies to those who have already seen them on birdchan - Hope you enjoy reading them again!

RT @SimSpaceBristol
Great fun hosting @NmskNbt for more team training! Lots of #humanfactors knowhow in action. Get in touch simspace@nbt.nhs.uk to learn more about using #simulation for your team/setting @NorthBristolNHS #NBTProud #OneNBT #FTSU #patientsafety @MariaKaneNHS https://twitter.com/AbbieLindsay/status/1641088496084328449

Taken #antibiotics recently? Talk to your HCP if you develop any side effects, especially severe diarrhea, since that could be a #Cdiff infection. https://bit.ly/3ZUmi8N

#PSAW23 #PatientSafety #BeAntibioticsAware

#DidYouKnow? If you or a loved one stay in a nursing home or other long-term care facility, you may be at increased risks for infections. Learn more about how to be a safe patient or resident: https://bit.ly/3YBJrMa.

#PSAW23 #PatientSafety

Newsletter klaxon! Our Healthcare Roundup newsletter is heading for inboxes right now.

Catch up with our essential digest of the week's #NHS and #HealthTech news.

And read our interview with long-standing #IT expert and #PatientSafety campaigner Clive Flashman, on the need for systems thinking and learning-loops in #DigitalHealth adoption.

Read it here: https://bit.ly/3YhIQPI
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“#patientsafety policy and practice has relied too heavily on the vigilance and heroism of clinicians, rather than the design of safe #systems”. https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.22.0318

If you are likely to be infectious (recent symptoms, close contact), whether you choose to wear a respirator as a clinician when seeing a patient is not a matter of whether “you feel more comfortable”, it’s whether your patient has an adverse outcome as a consequence of this choice. This is an easily avoidable outcome you will be responsible for.
#MasksWork #N95 #PatientSafety

Bridging the gap between tech and medicine 💻💊

The tech world moves fast with a focus on innovation and failing fast, while the medical world is rooted in evidence and research that moves slowly to ensure patient safety. It may seem like these two worlds are at odds with each other, but there's so much to learn from finding a way to bridge the gap.

Samantha Lai is a medical student.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ydrL5bgniz4

Listen here: https://kevinmd.com/podcast

#TechAndMedicine #Innovation #PatientSafety

Today we also publish new data on the laboratory parameter serum creatinine and its use in staging of acute kidney injury:

- Women and elderly patients are systematically underdiagnosed

- A sex- and age-adapted approach is necessary to address this discrimination

Our aim is to automatically identify undetected medical conditions and integrate them into the clinicians' digital workflow.

https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12031092

#CDSS #patientsafety #AKI #KDIGO #Troponin #Creatinine

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RT @csubbe@twitter.com

#SafeSurgery - Would #patientsafety be better if #patients have their own #Checklist? Here is how it might work: https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-022-07470-z

Discussing at #PPS2023 Symposium
https://bit.ly/PPS_2023

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/csubbe/status/1619366013392527361