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Parkinson's &
Patient Safety
Topic 41: parkinson's & patient safety
This site contains education and research URL's bookmarked by a Parkinson's patient. Nothing you read in these pages should be considered an endorsement or medical advice. Finding Five: Patient safety requires that patients become acculturated in the need to participate actively in their own health care. The current "patient culture" implies that patients generally do not question the activities and interventions considered necessary by health care professionals. Physicians and nurses must adjust their own practice approaches to encourage patients to become educated and to participate in their own health care. Patient safety... Medical errors are the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, with the number of deaths exceeding those associated with motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. The problem of medical errors, and in particular, medication errors, was brought vividly to public attention by the 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. To Err Is Human Healthcare Quality CDC's 7 Healthcare Safety Challenges 7 Challenges To assure safe and effective drug therapy, learn all you can about your medicines Patient Safety First The more information you have, the better able you are to to prevent errors and to take care of yourself. You have to ask your pharmacists, doctors and nurses about your medications, and you have to expect answers. Avoiding Medication Errors Your pharmacist maintains for you a medication record, which does a lot more than just list the medications that you are taking now and have taken in the past. It also records information about you that will help your doctor and your pharmacist make sure that your medicines work well for you, like allergies to drugs that you may have, diseases and conditions that you have that may have an effect on drugs you take, and adverse effects you may have experienced from drugs before. Your Medication Record Patients Should Be Able To Show and Tell You In Their Own Words How They Would Take Their Medicine Read More... Explore how often errors and adverse drug events occur, what causes them, and how they can often be avoided Patient Safety First In "Dangerous Prescription," FRONTLINE® investigates the integrity of America's drug safety system. Through interviews with current and former FDA officials, critics, a pharmaceutical industry representative, and consumers, the one-hour documentary examines the FDA's handling of several drugs that were approved but later were pulled from the market after causing injuries and even deaths. The program also examines the role that drug companies play in the approval and monitoring of prescription drugs, and questions whether the FDA's current system is adequate for protecting the public. PBS: Dangerous Prescription Tasmar - Parkinson's Drug Suspended in Europe Tasmar Suspended Tasmar - Lethal Drug Reactions - Warnings and Recalls Tasmar Recall Pergolide (Permax) - Parkinson's Drug Linked with Heart Valve Trouble Pergolide Warning FDA Posts Warning of Parkinson's Drug Causing Patients to Unexpectedly Sleep - Even While Driving Warning: Unexpectedly Sleep Parkinson's Drugs Can Cause Excessive Drowsiness Ropinirole (Requip) and pramipexole (Mirapex) increased the risk of sleepiness five times compared with an inactive placebo and two times compared with the older Parkinson's drug levodopa Read More... Driving Decisions: When do you hang up the keys? Driving Decisions FDA Patient Safety News FDA News SAFETY ALERT: Parkinson's Trial Halted, but Researchers Remain Optimistic Parkinson's Trial Halted Consumer Brochure on Safe Medication Use Safe Medication Use Drug Name Confusion: Purinethol® & Propylthiouracil Purinethol® & Propylthiouracil Drug Name Confusion: Serzone and Seroquel Serzone and Seroquel Drug Name Confusion: Taxotere and Taxol Taxotere and Taxol Drug Name Confusion: Zyprexa/Zyrtec/Zantac Zyprexa/Zyrtec/Zantac Although abbreviations and acronyms can save time, they can also cause medication errors. Abbreviations aren't always read the same way, and they can be interpreted differently by different practitioners. That's why the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention is encouraging practitioners to avoid using abbreviations when prescribing medications Drug Errors Caused by Abbreviations Article on Campaign to Encourage Patients to "Speak Up" "Speak Up" is actually an acronym in which each letter stands for something patients should do. "Speak Up" Against the backdrop of an historic congressional debate on legislation to add long-promised prescription drug coverage to Medicare, FRONTLINE examines the battle between major pharmaceutical companies and American consumers fed up with paying the highest drug prices in the world. PBS: Drug Price Debate In "The Alternative Fix," FRONTLINE® examines the controversy over complementary and alternative medicine. The one-hour documentary features interviews with staunch supporters, skeptical scientists, and other observers on both sides of the alternative medicine debate and questions whether hospitals that offer alternative therapies are inappropriately conveying a sense of legitimacy to these largely untested and scientifically unproven treatments. Alternative Fix Protecting Your Patients - Errors Using Transdermal Patches Errors Using Transdermal Patches Cell Phone Safety Don't answer that cell phone! EMI These days, most health professionals have heard about the problem of electromagnetic interference, or EMI. That is, the hazard that's created when electronic devices like cell phones interfere with certain electrically powered medical devices, like infusion pumps. Most hospitals already have signs warning patients and staff about using electronic devices in certain areas. Yet interference continues to occur and, although it's rare, patients can be injured. Electromagnetic Interference with Medical Devices Alert on Implanted Neurostimulators and Diathermy In 2001, 2 patients who had been implanted with deep brain stimulators and later received diathermy treatment, died as a result Alert on Implants DBS Alert Electrical Muscle Stimulators User Safety Hospital Bed Safety User Safety Power Wheelchairs User Safety Motorized Scooters User Safety Patient Death Illustrates Importance of MRI Room Precautions Importance of MRI Room Precautions Magnetic Resonance Imaging Room Safety MRI Room Safety New Safety Guidelines for MRI Facilities Safety Guidelines for MRI MRI Safe Practice Guidelines MRI Safe Practice Guidelines With the creation of Patient Safety First, AORN is taking an active leadership role in identifying, compiling, and developing clinical resources and educational products that address the needs of perioperative nurses. Patient Safety First The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is a nonprofit organization that works closely with health care practitioners and institutions, regulatory agencies, professional organizations and the pharmaceutical industry to provide education about adverse drug events and their prevention. Institute for Safe Medication Practices The National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) embodies the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) uncompromising commitment to reducing and preventing adverse medical events while enhancing the care given our patients. The NCPS represents a unified and cohesive patient safety program, with active participation by all of the VA hospitals supported by dedicated patient safety managers. Our program is unique in healthcare; we focus on prevention not punishment, applying human factor analysis and the safety research of high reliability organizations (aviation and nuclear power) targeted at identifying and eliminating system vulnerabilities. Patient Safety (NCPS) National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention NCHSTP: Bloodborne Infectious Diseases Bloodborne Infectious Diseases -HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B Virus, and Hepatitis C Virus NIOSH: Bloodborne Infectious Diseases NIOSH shares “Lessons Learned” on Needlestick Prevention NIOSH shares... NIOSH Web site, "Safer Medical Device Implementation in Health Care Facilities: Lessons Learned" Lessons Learned Abbott Laboratories' Needlestick Prevention Systems - This web site provides news on legislation, resources, and education programs for needle-stick prevention. Needlestick Prevention |