An old medical blogger is back (I’ll leave it to you to find out who it is).
BS in Health Care (not to be confused with David Catron’s Health Care BS) talks about the IOMs assertion that 98,000 people are killed by medical errors annually.
Despite all the resources poured into the system to reduce medical errors, not much has changed six years after the IOM report.
Why didn’t throwing money at the problem work? The reason is teased in a future post. Interesting take.
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- Can transparency of medical errors be a selling point?
- Can medical errors be good for you?
- Is reducing medical errors similar to improving transportation safety?
- Electronic records are supposed to reduce medical errors, right?
- Medical errors: Impact on physicians
- Is incident reporting effective in reducing medical errors and increasing patient safety?
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do you have the link to the post about IOM? I can’t find it there.
I would like to know how medication reconcilliation really saves lives and the study that supports this stupid process that was placed upon hospitals by JACHO. During my residency (I was at 3 hospitals) and each hospital did it differently and now that I am in my fellowship they also do it differently. In the end, I always did a medication reconcilliation when I talked with my patient (getting a history, doing a consult) or just seeing them in a clinic…I always ASK what medications one is on. That is my reconcilliation. At my present place of employment, the nurses ask and then enter the data into power chart…in all honesty, do I ever look at what they do…heck no. I could care less what they get from the patient. I trust what I do period and it is always present in my H&P, consultation or my clinic dictation. PERIOD. So again I ask…why all this BS with medication reconcilliation. I find that at discharge, it creates way more confusion with everyone…then myself just writing out the medicines and telling the patient to talk what I have prescribed and stop everything else. I hypothesize that more mistakes happen now then how things were done before med reconcilliation. I again would like to see the IOM and JACHO provide evidence based studies to prove that this time, intensive and confusing process actually saves lives. COuld anyone point me to those studies? I think not…yet we are all at the mercy of the stupid, idiotic mandated requirements because some beurocrat without any medical background thinks it makes sense to do this.
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