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Convenience Kit Recall: Medical Action Industries Removes Convenience Kits Containing Namic RA Syringes
Pacemaker Correction: Boston Scientific Issues Correction for ACCOLADE Pacemakers and CRT-Ps
Accolade Pacemaker Devices by Boston Scientific and Potential Need for Early Device Replacement - FDA Safety Communication
Disruptions in Availability of Neurosurgical Patties, Sponges, and Strips - Letter to Health Care Providers
Trividia Health Correction for TRUE METRIX Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems
Surgical Stapler Reload Recall: Intuitive Surgical Removes 8mm SureForm 30 Gray Reloads
Sizing Catheter Recall: Cook Medical Removes Various Centimeter Sizing Catheters
Insulin Pump Recall: Insulet Removes Certain Omnipod 5 Pods
Blood Glucose Monitor Recall: Trividia Health Issues Correction for TRUE METRIX Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems
Risks of Using TRUE METRIX Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems by Trividia Health: FDA Safety Communication
Early Alert: Thoracic Stent Graft Issue from Bolton Medical
B. Braun Medical, Inc. Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Lactated Ringer’s Injection, 1L, E7500 Due to the Presence of Particulate Matter in Solution
Early Alert: Automated Compounding System Issue from Omnicell
Early Alert: Arrow International Removes Dialysis Catheter Kits Containing Merit Medical Splittable Sheath Introducers
Cranial Drill Recall: Integra LifeSciences Recalls Codman Disposable Perforators Due to Risk of Device Disassembly
Early Alert: Convenience Kit Issue from Aligned Medical Solutions
Insulin Pump Correction: Tandem Diabetes Care Issues Correction for Tandem Mobi Insulin Pumps
Learning to forget: deimplementation and the science of sustainability in healthcare
Sustainability is not static maintenance; it is evolution. Health systems that can adapt, discard and relearn, retaining what matters and deliberately forgetting what no longer serves patients, can sustain high-value care and continually move beyond low-value practices.
When learning is not enough: why health systems must learn to forgetHealthcare prides itself on being a learning system. We collect data, consider the context, analyse outcomes and iterate improvement cycles. Yet, true sustainability—the ability to embed and maintain improvement over time—requires more than learning: it demands deliberate unlearning. Outdated order sets, decision rules and routines have the potential to shape care long after evidence has evolved.1 A paradox of improvement is that systems cannot sustain what is new until they have let go of what is old....
Physician participation in pre-emptive patient safety huddles
Patient safety huddles have been employed across healthcare settings to boost safety culture and improve patient outcomes. However, there is a dearth of literature pertaining to physicians’ levels of interest in participating in these huddles, as well as the impact of physician presence on patient care dynamics. Multidisciplinary huddles aimed at identifying and addressing patient safety issues related to the electronic health record (EHR), for example, were helpful for promoting discussion of EHR-related safety concerns.1 Furthermore, there is a robust literature demonstrating the patient safety benefits of perioperative time-outs in the surgical literature, as well as structured handoffs at the time of care transfer.2–5 Yet hospitalist physicians were not always routinely a key part of these huddles, even though representatives from the medical and surgical services were among the 40 roles that attended some huddles in these studies.
