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Smiths Medical Recalls Certain CADD System Administration Sets and Cassette Reservoirs for Issues Causing Delay, Interruption, or Under-Delivery of Therapy
Organizational Trustworthiness in Health Care
IBSA Pharma Inc. Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Select Lots of TIROSINT®-SOL (levothyroxine sodium) Oral Solution Due to Subpotency
Certain Philips Respironics Masks for BiPAP, CPAP Machines Recalled Due to Safety Issue with Magnets That May Affect Certain Medical Devices: Letter to Health Care Providers
Edgewell Personal Care Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Banana Boat Hair & Scalp Sunscreen Due to the Presence of Benzene – UPDATED
Medtronic Recalls Mahurkar Acute Dual Lumen High Flow Hemodialysis Catheters for Potential Catheter Hub Defect
LivaNova (TandemLife) Adds to Recall for LifeSPARC System that May Experience Unintentional Extended Pump Stops Due to Controller Critical Failure
LivaNova (TandemLife) Recalls LifeSPARC System for Risk of Unintentional Extended Pump Stop During Controller Critical Failure
LivaNova (TandemLife) Adds Software Update to Recall for LifeSPARC System for Risk of Unintentional Extended Pump Stop During Controller Critical Failure
How to Make a Caregiving Plan (So It's Ready When You Need It)
Emailing Your Doctor May Carry a Fee
Meeting the Needs of the Healthcare Workforce
Emergent Recalls Certain RSDL (Reactive Skin Decontamination Lotion) Kits Due to Leak Potential
2023 Medical Device Recalls
Datascope/Getinge Recalls Cardiosave Hybrid and Rescue Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps (IABP) for Risk That Blood May Enter Pump Through Damaged Balloon Catheter, Causing Patient Harm
A Matter of Trust: Commitment to Act for Health Equity
Using Machine Learning to Improve Patient Safety in the Home or Remote Setting for Adults
Impact of medical education on patient safety: finding the signal through the noise
Medical education and patient care are inextricably linked. At this time, with the limitations of simulation training and our continued dependence on educated physicians for clinical decision-making, one domain cannot exist without the other. The involvement of medical trainees in patient care means it is vital that the impact of changes to medical training programmes on patient outcomes are assessed with well-designed studies. The study, "National improvements in resident physician-reported patient safety after limiting first-year resident physicians’ extended duration work shifts,"1 by Weaver and colleagues published in this month’s issue of BMJ Quality and Safety signals the need for a robust discussion of education policy research within the field of medicine.
Before specifically addressing the approach used by Weaver et al,1 a review of the complexities involved in studying the impact of medical education policy is warranted.2 The field of ‘education outcomes research’...
Top-down and bottom-up approaches to low-value care
Low-value care refers to tests or treatments for which there is little evidence of benefit or more harm than benefit, which can result in poor patient outcomes such as unwarranted secondary tests or adverse events. In this context, inefficient use of scarce healthcare resources threatens the sustainability of healthcare systems and low-value care is an obvious target. About 25%–30% of all care has been estimated to be of low value in countries such as Australia, Canada, Spain, Brazil and the USA, and this estimate rises to 80% for certain procedures.1 There is increasing interest to identify areas of low-value care based on available evidence, guidelines and expert opinion,2 including initiatives such as Choosing Wisely3 and the British Medical Journal’s Too Much Medicine campaign.4 These campaigns aim to reduce or stop low-value services (i.e., de-implement) from the ‘bottom up’, at micro or...
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