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AHRQ's 2007 National Healthcare Quality Report finds safety ...
The 2007 report focuses on 41 core measures covering effectiveness, safety, timeliness and patient-centeredness and selected by an HHS interagency work group. While the measures are scientifically derived, the knowledge base is not ...
Report: Public Safety IT Market to Reach $21.3 Billion by 2011
Emergency workers are increasingly using PDAs, laptops, and mobile data terminals, according to Compass Intelligence, the consulting firm that conducted the research.
Patients still stuck with bill for medical errors as 11 states ...
The National Quality Forum (NQF), a health care safety advocacy agency, has identified 28 such events. The list includes so-called "wrong-site" procedures, in which doctors operate on the wrong body part, the wrong place and, ...
Another Agency Decimated by a Political Hack
Vaccine safety now goes through Gerberding's office, and consensus seems to be that doing so has been disastrous. The CDC had always been independent, no matter who was in the White House. It is, after all, the nations public health ...
Avian Influenza - Introduction
The animal health website provides detailed information on avian influenza and the response at EU level. The public health pages deals with the threat H5N1 can pose to human health, as well as EU action to prepare for a possible human ...
Independence of CDC Scientists in Question
In 2005, five of the agency’s last six directors charged in an unprecedented letter that Gerberding’s management and politicization of the agency were harming CDC’s unparalleled international reputation in the field of public health. ...
Oregon hospital to cease charging for medical errors
Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS) has adopted a uniform set of guidelines, in the form of a resolution, to ensure that no patient (or payer) will pay for hospital care related to an adverse event. ...
Nano-protecting the public
Health and Safety of the Public and Workers: The prevention of exposure to nanomaterials that have not been proved safe must be undertaken to protect the public and workers. 4. Environmental Protection: A full lifecycle analysis of ...
The Democrats Get Gun Shy
The issue is treated as a public health and safety problem and the focus is almost exclusively on saving lives, preventing injury, and working towards solutions. The difference in our country is that we have a "gun culture" that prizes ...
[FWD: incremental approaches to health care reform]
Additionally, raising tobacco taxes has shown to help reduce rates of smoking, which is a key public health goal. Even lawmakers in South Carolina are considering a proposal to increase the country's smallest cigarette tax and ban ...