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.
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Institute of Medicine report scrutinizes medical device approval process
The IOM released a report last week reviewing the 510(k) medical device approval process. The report finds that the current FDA process “lacks the legal basis to be a reliable premarket screen of the safety and effectiveness” of devices.
Categories: Medical Device Safety
Tags: FDA, medical device, recall
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 & Medical Devices
Tags: C. diff, CDC, FDA, medical device, Patient Safety Day, recall, video
Breaking News: Handwashing Saves Lives
We have said many times that handwashing makes a difference in stopping hospital acquired infections. Like us, President Obama acknowledges the importance of hand hygiene to prevent illness.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections, MRSA
Tags: CDC, handwashing, recall
Medical Mistakes show on Oprah
Did you catch the Oprah Winfrey Show on Tuesday about medical mistakes? She featured actor Dennis Quaid who recalled the series of hospital errors that nearly killed his newborn twins after they were given one thousand times the amount of the blood-thinning drug Heparin—twice.
Categories: Drugs & Medical Devices, Hospital Acquired Infections, Medical Errors
Tags: Patient Safety Day, Pharma, recall
SC activist Dianne Parker fights for safer care
Dianne Parker became a lead patient safety activist after her husband, Willie, died from a combination of medical errors and a hospital-acquired MRSA infection. Watch her story…
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections, Medical Errors, MRSA
Tags: public reporting, recall, surgical site infection, video
Some Hospitals Provide Rxs for Error, Dissatisfaction
You may remember Dennis Quaid from The Parent Trap but nowadays he’s speaking out against medical errors…
Categories: Drugs & Medical Devices, Hospital Acquired Infections, Medical Errors
Tags: CDC, Pharma, recall
Contaminants in pig intestines? Who knew!
Update on the heparin recall. Heparin is a blood thinner derived from pig intestines.
Categories: Drugs & Medical Devices
Tags: FDA, Heparin, recall
Heparin recall ordered
Late yesterday, Baxter International ordered a full-scale recall on the blood thinner Heparin.
Categories: Drugs & Medical Devices
Tags: FDA, Heparin, recall
Another prestigious institution bans Pharma swag
In what the NY Times calls “a growing movement among academic institutions,” Stanford University Medical Center will ban gifts — even small ones like pens — from pharma sales reps to physicians who work there.
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: flu, JAMA, medical device, Patient Safety Day, recall
