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.
C. diff
Doctors create ‘poop pills’ that transfer feces from healthy people into guts of patients with infections
“Doctors have found a way of putting healthy people’s poop into pills to cure serious gut infections – a less invasive way of carrying out ‘fecal transplants’.”
Categories: C. diff, Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: C. diff, fecal transplants
C. Diff Rates Doubled in Decade
Researcher: The rate of Clostridium difficile infections in U.S. hospitals nearly doubled in the decade between 2001 and 2010
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: C. diff
Patient story: Dexter family turns loss into activism
The Dexter family shares their story of losing the “matriarch” of their family to a ravaging C.diff infection.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: C. diff
Clostridium difficile Leaves the Hospital—What’s Next?
NEJM study suggests that community acquired c. difficile comes from health care settings.
Categories: C. diff, Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: C. diff
Fecal Transplant: FDA Wants Regulation
Fecal transplants have been successful in the treatment of the antibiotic resistant bacteria C-difficile. Should the FDA be regulating this as a biologic?
Categories: C. diff, Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: C. diff
Targeted screening can reduce spread of C. diff infection
New study published in the May issue of American Journal of Infection Control finds testing patients with 3 risk factors when they’re admitted could help hospitals reduce spread of C.diff infection.
Categories: C. diff, Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: C. diff, C.diff screening, infection control
“It’s not just statistics…it’s somebody’s Mom”
Hospital infections leave a lasting impact on the individuals and families who had to experience them. For Mary Brennan-Taylor, hospital infections took the life of her mother, Alice Brennan, who passed away in 2009 after entering the hospital for pain and swelling in her leg.
Categories: C. diff, Hospital Acquired Infections, MRSA
Tags: C. diff, video, VRE
Recall Announcement Affects Consumers Union Employee
Medical recalls can indicate potential risk of serious injury or death to patients, but they often go unnoticed.
Categories: Drugs
Tags: C. diff, CDC, FDA, medical device, Patient Safety Day, recall, video
Beware of Scary Superbugs in Your Hospital
It only takes three things for a hospital superbug to infect a patient. Should you be concerned?
Categories: MRSA
Tags: C. diff, CDC, medicare part d
Victory for patients! Public reporting of certain infections will go nationwide
Soon it will be easier for you to find out how well your hospital prevents certain infections. As part of the new health care reform law, the Department of Health and Human Services will require hospitals to publicly disclose several types of dangerous hospital infections.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections, MRSA
Tags: C. diff, HHS, ICU, medicare part d, public reporting, surgical site infection
