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Patient Safety Action Network (PSAN) retweeted
Tragically funny state of affairs report on how state medical boards fail to protect patients. John Oliver nails it. Sadly, it's no joke how dangerous doctors still practice daily w/no oversight. #patientsafety youtube.com/watch?v=jVIYbgVk…
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Patient Safety Action Network (PSAN) retweeted
Thanks @statnews for covering @CMSGov's misguided plan to revoke researchers' access to Medicare and Medicaid data and push us to their own expensive and clunky server. I'm quoted here in a conversation I had with @bobjherman yesterday.
ALT Excerpt from STAT newsletter titled "CMS research drama". Key text: Researchers blasted the agency for the sudden change, arguing it blows up current projects with grant funding and makes future research prohibitively more expensive. “If CMS proceeds along this path, a wide array of research that is happening would not be able to continue,” said Adam Sacarny, a health care researcher and professor at Columbia University, who was among the first to flag this change in policy. “This is research that is fundamental to making these programs better, and it won’t be able to happen.”
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Patient Safety Action Network (PSAN) retweeted
"The FDA frequently approves medical products for adults of all ages that have not been tested on any people over 70 and tested on just a few people over 65.
In fact, the FDA is the only U.S. public health agency that simply recommends, rather than requires, diversity"
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Patient Safety Action Network (PSAN) retweeted
Medicare has different standards than the FDA. That’s how it should be. trib.al/12Fab3k
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Patient Safety Action Network (PSAN) retweeted
KFF’s new interactive timeline explores how history has shaped racial and ethnic health disparities and the lasting effects that persist to this day.
Dive into the 80 entries: bit.ly/3TX6PFd
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Another CPAP recall - ResMed Ltd. Recalls AirFit and AirTouch Masks Due to Possible Magnetic Interference with Certain Medical Devices. #EndMedHarm fda.gov/medical-devices/medi…
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Meta-analysis points to need to study patient positioning during surgery + patient interviews after to raise awareness of connection between surgery & sudden new pain elsewhere in the body. Likely this is tip of the iceberg. #EndMedHarm onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Patient Safety Action Network (PSAN) retweeted
Former Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson's family to file a lawsuit against Baylor Hospital says she died on Dec. 31st of “medical negligence" after being left in her feces and urine just days after spinal surgery.
Johnson was the first nurse in Congress.
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Patient Safety Action Network (PSAN) retweeted
Traveling for the holidays? An #AntimicrobialResistance threat somewhere can become a threat anywhere. Take precautions to help ensure a healthy & safe holiday travel season & help to combat AR at the same time: bit.ly/2ATfgIN
ALT A mom, dad, and child smile at one another in an airport with luggage all around them.
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A great wrap up of all of the investigations Kaiser Health News has done on medical devices this year. Our system of oversight of medical implants and other life changing devices is seriously flawed. #EndMedHarm kffhealthnews.org/news/artic…
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Olympus Scopes Back in the News, now with a Fire Warning & the most severe Class I recall. fda.gov/medical-devices/medi…
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Patient Safety Action Network (PSAN) retweeted
Doctors may have identified a possible new syndrome in newborns linked to fentanyl exposure nbcnews.com/health/health-ne… via @nbcnews #family #Healthcare @FamHealthGuide @ptsafetyaction @cafemom
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Patient Safety Action Network (PSAN) retweeted
Patients expected Profemur artificial hips to last. Then they snapped in half. #patientsafety #warning #Healthcare #Device #SafetyFirst @ptsafetyaction @CMSGov @US_FDA @FDArecalls @PLAN4ZERO @MizCole2U @NIH @hhask
cbsnews.com/news/profemur-ar… via @CBSMornings
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Patient Safety Action Network (PSAN) retweeted
For the last few months, I've been combing through inspections reports and interviewing former staff about Northlake Behavioral Health Center, a psychiatric hospital in Mandeville.
Here's what I found 🧵
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Attention Texans - look up your doctor! One minute could save your life #EndMedHarm youtu.be/aLpxu3-kazc?feature… via @YouTube
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Patients shouldn’t have to watch their CPAP for smoke & fire! Where does this end? FDA advice: Inspect...for unusual smells or changes in appearance...problems may only be noticeable when machine is running... pay attention before you fall asleep. rb.gy/2hia8t
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An est'd 795 000 Americans become permanently disabled or die annually across care settings because dangerous diseases are misdiagnosed. Just 15 diseases account for about half of all serious harms. qualitysafety.bmj.com/conten…
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Patient Safety Action Network (PSAN) retweeted
.@Richvn: Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed? nature.com/articles/d41586-0… @Nature
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Patient Safety Action Network (PSAN) retweeted
795,000 Americans a year die or are permanently disabled after being misdiagnosed @dnewmantoker @DanaSiegal1 usatoday.com/story/news/heal… via @claire_thornto @usatoday
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