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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“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
Video: Advice on staying safe in the hospital–from the experts
Hear advice from consumer advocates on patient safety.
Categories: Doctor Accountability, Hospital Acquired Infections, Medical Devices & Drugs, Medical Errors
Tags: HHS, surgical error, video
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: Medical Devices & Drugs
Tags: C. diff, CDC, FDA, medical device, Patient Safety Day, recall, video
Jon Stewart: What If We Classified Hospital Infections as Terrorists?
Surgeon and author Atul Gawande, M.D., discusses the surgical checklist on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: CDC, public reporting, surgical error, surgical site infection, video
Let’s talk about MRSA
Learn about MRSA from the people who have had personal experiences with this harmful superbug.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections, MRSA
Tags: CDC, medicare part d, video
RFO Encounters in Pennsylvania
You’ve heard of UFOs but have you heard of RFOs? 194 Pennsylvanians could tell you about their RFO encounter last year – that’s how many cases of “retained foreign objects” were reported to that state’s Patient Safety Authority in 2008.
Categories: Medical Errors
Tags: Medicare, RFO, surgical error, video
Watch Money-Driven Medicine
A new documentary, Money-Driven Medicine, offers a thoughtful perspective to the health care reform debate that couldn’t be timelier.
Categories: Doctor Accountability, Hospital Acquired Infections, Medical Errors
Tags: Money-Driven Medicine, Patient Safety Day, video
Activists speak out at Presidential health care forum
Your stories matter. We are listening—and we’re getting those at the highest levels of government to listen, too.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections, MRSA
Tags: C. diff, medicare part d, patient safety activists, video
Raise your hand if you’ve had a hospital-acquired infection
More people know about hospital acquired infections and medical errors than you might think, and not just from watching Oprah.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections, Medical Errors, MRSA
Tags: CDC, public reporting, video
Mother against medical error
Helen Haskell, founder of Mothers Against Medical Error (MAME), became a patient safety advocate after her 15 year old son died from a medical error in 2000. Watch her story.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections, Medical Errors
Tags: video
