Officials with the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) recently published the organization's Top 10 Patient Safety Must Reads for August.
These reads are included in the top five PPAHS articles. The publication also includes the top five tweets about safety for patients.
"These must-reads reflect concerns about the safe use of opioids, why patient safety should be a part of medical school curriculum, provide keys to implementing a patient safety culture in the hospital, and what role innovation may play in improving safer care,” Dr. Michael Wong, executive director of PPAHS, said.
The first article, “Why All Medical Schools Must Incorporate Quality Improvement and Patient Safety into Their Curriculums,” is from Molly Siegel, a medical student from Boston University School of Medicine. Her article focuses on how important it is for clinicians to receive training about patient safety awareness.
Peggy Lange, director of the Respiratory Care Department at St. Cloud Hospital, is featured as an interviewee in the second article, “Five Key Learnings to Create a Culture of Patient Safety with Capnography.”
The third article, “No Child Should Every Die from Elective Dental Anesthesia,” is the collaborative work of Wong, Dr. Anna Kaplan and Dr. Patricia Salber. It is about a 6-year-old boy named Caleb Sears; he was having routine elective dental surgery when he died because of complications from intravenous anesthesia.
