connecticut center for patient safety + annual report

by Dr. Barrett O'Reilly Published 2 years ago Updated 1 year ago 9 min read

Connecticut Center for Patient Safety, LLC | A Voice for …

16 hours ago Annual Report The Connecticut Department of Public Health recently released its 2016 Adverse Event Report and sadly, there were only small changes from the prior year. In fact, while a few events were reduced, there were thirteen wrong site surgeries, one wrong surgical procedure performed on a patient and even one wrong patient surgery. >> Go To The Portal

Empowering Patients

Decisional Framework for Advance Care Planning : The journey of advance care planning can be long and often complex. From making decisions while healthy to ensuring wishes are met at the end of life, each step has different considerations and conversations.

Hospitals

ProPublica's: A Patient's Guide: How To Stay Safe In a Hospital provides many simple to follow basic care practices to lead to a safer hospital experience.

Doctors

ProPublica's Surgeon Scorecard allows you to look up a surgeon by name, hospital affiliation or location. Guided by experts, ProPublica calculated death and complication rates for surgeons performing one of eight elective procedures in Medicare, carefully adjusting for differences in patient health, age and hospital quality.

Infections

Sepsis Alliance is the largest sepsis advocacy organization in the U.S. working in all 50 states to save lives and reduce suffering from sepsis. Sepsis Alliance is a charitable organization run by a dedicated team who share a strong commitment to battling sepsis.

Medicare and Social Security

At the Medicare.gov website you will find a set of tools to help you compare different treatment facilities that you may need to use. The Medicare website offers comparisons and other information on dialysis facilities, nursing homes, hospitals and home health agencies .

Senior Issues and Home Health Care

Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices

Pharmalot covers news, issues and trends concerning the pharmaceutical industry. It is a place to go for information. The blog is also a community, where people who work in and with the industry - or follow it for any number of reasons - stop by to exchange ideas and opinions about the latest developments.