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From IOM News:
The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public
Lack of clear regulatory authority, chronic underfunding, organizational problems, and a scarcity of post-approval data about drugs' risks and benefits have hampered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ability to evaluate and address the safety of prescription drugs after they have reached the market.
Noting that resources and therefore efforts to monitor medications' risk-benefit profiles taper off after approval, The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public offers a broad set of recommendations to ensure that consideration of safety extends from before product approval through the entire time the product is marketed and used.
• Read more about this report
• Read the report brief from this report
To Err Is Human; To Fail to Improve Is Unconscionable
"To Err Is Human" co-author Lucian L. Leape, M.D., an adjunct professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Commonwealth Fund President Karen Davis, PhD.
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Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signs Executive Order creating new Division of Patient Safety.
In an effort to reduce the number of medical errors that claim the lives of more than 4,000 Illinoisans and nearly 100,000 Americans each year, on June 13 Governor Blagojavich proposed sweeping and comprehensive changes to cut down on errors and improve patient safety. Medical errors cost $1.5 billion a year - in Illinois alone - contributing to higher insurance premiums, higher costs for hospital visits and treatments, higher co-pays, higher insurance rates for doctors and higher costs of prescription drugs. Every year 98,000 Americans die from medical errors - errors that were preventable. In fact, nearly as many Americans die each year from medical errors as from AIDS (16,500), breast cancer (42,000) and car accidents (43,000) combined. Gov. Blagojevich proposed a comprehensive package of reforms to reduce the number of medical errors and improve patient safety including:
Proposing that all providors use e-prescribing by 2011 to reduce the risk of medication errors; and
Creating a new Division of Patient Safety within the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) to specifically focus on reducing medical mistakes and improving patient safety.
Read the entire press release
Read the Executive Order |
CPSF 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting
Friday, March 9, 2007 a great success! Thank you to all participants!
A DVD-ROM with video and presentation materials is now available.
Click here for more details
Congratulations to Gordon Schiff, MD (one of CPSF's founders) for being recognized with the ISMP Cheers Lifetime Achievement Award!
For more info click here
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We wish to thank Rush-Copley Medical Center and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois for their generous support of the Chicago Patient Safety Forum. These generous donations show that we are building a patient safety movement across venues and specialties. See our other sponsors. |
