http://www.safepatientproject.org/geography/missouri/ The Safe Patient Project is a Consumers Union campaign focused on eliminating medical harm, improving FDA oversight of prescription drugs and promoting disclosure laws that give information to consumers about health care safety and quality. en Copyright 2012 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:54:22 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Hospital patients and their relatives in Missouri and most of the United States have no way of learning about most adverse events. Most adverse events aren't publicly reported.

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/11/never_events_at_hospitals_go_u.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/11/never_events_at_hospitals_go_u.html News Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:54:22 -0600 A new law will give Missouri residents more information about their doctor, including disciplianary actions and license revocations in other states.

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/09/missouri_patients_can_now_find.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/09/missouri_patients_can_now_find.html News Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:02:25 -0600 The Star found about 200 doctors who have practiced in Kansas or Missouri since 1990 and have had five or more malpractice case payments made on their behalf, without ever being disciplined by the state’s board. And although the two states’ boards have access to malpractice claims information from several sources, they don’t make it available to the public — unlike the boards in many other states.

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/09/doctors_with_histories_of_alle.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/09/doctors_with_histories_of_alle.html News Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:02:50 -0600 A new state law will allow patients to learn more about their doctors' backgrounds and give the Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts increased power to discipline incompetent physicians. Consumers Union worked with the media and did an online action in support of the bill, asking MO activists to send letters of support.

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/07/nixon_signs_law_to_help_missou.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/07/nixon_signs_law_to_help_missou.html News Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:56:27 -0600 On Friday, the Missouri Legislature sent Gov. Jay Nixon a bill that would give the board more power to suspend incompetent and impaired doctors and provide patients with more information about their doctors. The reforms were inspired by a Post-Dispatch investigation last year that found the state's policing of doctors to be among the nation's most lax and least transparent.

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/05/legislature_sends_doctor_disci.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/05/legislature_sends_doctor_disci.html News Mon, 16 May 2011 12:14:34 -0600 Ambiguous records at St. John's and inability to get information frustrate wife and daughter of man, now deceased.

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/05/patients_family_seeks_answers.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/05/patients_family_seeks_answers.html News Fri, 06 May 2011 15:53:11 -0600 Proposals to reform Missouri's lax system on disciplining of doctors have advanced out of committee, and bills are ready for debate before the full House and Senate, but the future of any legislation remains clouded.

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/04/bill_to_reform_doctor_discipli.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/04/bill_to_reform_doctor_discipli.html News Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:06:16 -0600 The St. Louis Post investigation revealed that the Missouri healing arts board is one of the nation's weakest and least transparent. A bill has been introduced this session that would give Missouri regulators more authority to suspend dangerous doctors, and patients information about doctors would be available to patients.

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/03/legislation_would_speed_doctor_1.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/03/legislation_would_speed_doctor_1.html News Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:48:56 -0600 http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/03/drugs_and_medical_device_error.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/03/drugs_and_medical_device_error.html Story Ask Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:51:26 -0600 Post-Dispatch Editorial Board: Patients have a right to know a hospital’s track record.

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/03/editorial_missouri_hospitals_o.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/03/editorial_missouri_hospitals_o.html News Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:38:02 -0600 Missouri regulators would have more authority to suspend dangerous doctors, and patients would be able to better research physicians, if bills filed in the state Legislature become law.

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/03/legislation_would_speed_doctor.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/03/legislation_would_speed_doctor.html News Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:43:15 -0600 Missouri hospitals don't want people to know when and where medical mistakes happen - and no law requires them to tell.

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/02/hospitals_leery_of_reporting_s.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/02/hospitals_leery_of_reporting_s.html News Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:52:48 -0600 Two recent reports found issues at University Hospital that could affect patient safety. But a disconnect between regulators means many safety concerns like these are not shared with other agencies — or with the public.

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/02/patients_in_peril.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/02/patients_in_peril.html News Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:47:30 -0600 A Post-Dispatch investigation this year has shown how patients are kept in the dark about problems with their doctors and hospitals, and how a disciplinary system seems geared toward protecting doctors’ livelihoods.

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/02/postdispatch_series_who_protec.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/02/postdispatch_series_who_protec.html News Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:51:39 -0600 Information on legislation to strengthen doctor discipline laws in Missouri

]]> http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/02/mo_governor_legislators_vow_to.html http://www.safepatientproject.org/2011/02/mo_governor_legislators_vow_to.html News Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:46:02 -0600