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Survey Of Patient Safety In Oregon

November 3, 2025

The Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC), a non-regulatory, semi-independent state agency that supports healthcare facilities and providers in improving patient safety in Oregon, partnered with a local research firm in early 2025 to conduct a statewide survey to learn more about how medical harm [...]

medicalmalpracticelawyers.com’s 5,000th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting

October 28, 2024

Yesterday we posted our 5,000th consecutive daily blog. When we first started posting daily blogs in March 2011, Barack Obama was President of the United States; a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Honshu on the Japan Trench causing a tsunami that disabled three nuclear reac[...]

What Is Patient Safety?

August 16, 2024

The World Health Organization (WHO) states on its website: “Patient safety is defined as “the absence of preventable harm to a patient and reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to an acceptable minimum.” “Within the broader health system context, it is[...]

Why Can’t I Find A Medical Malpractice Lawyer To Take My Case?

August 15, 2024

First and foremost, medical malpractice lawyers are involved in a business – they must meet payrolls, pay office and business expenses, and take care of their own families’ financial needs. Most medical malpractice cases are handled on a contingency basis – only if and when a medic[...]

Washington Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges More Than Four-Hour Delay Led To Death In ER Lobby

December 29, 2023

On October 16, 2023, a Washington medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit was filed in the King County Superior Court, alleging that defendant Providence Regional Medical Center was negligent by allowing a 41-year-old mother of three to wait in the emergency room lobby for more than four hours on[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms Hospital Must Disclose Root Cause Analysis Notes Regarding Patient’s Bad Surgical Outcome

November 26, 2023

Wanetta Ford-Bey underwent wrist surgery at the defendant hospital. Shortly after the surgery, she suffered cardiacand respiratory failures that required her transfer to another facility for further care. A nurse internally reported the incident pursuant to hospital’s “Sentinel Event Policy” ([...]

Report: Healthcare-Associated Infections Increased During COVID-19 Pandemic

July 7, 2023

Healthcare-Associated Infections Increased During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization founded by large employers and others in 2000 that drives a movement for giant leaps for patient safety, issued a report on May 3, 2023 entitled “New Leapfrog Hospital Saf[...]

Surgeon’s Age Discrimination Lawsuit Against Hospital Exposes Patient Safety Issues

June 16, 2023

Age Discrimination Lawsuit Exposes Patient Safety Issues: Since the 1980s, neurosurgeon Set Shahbabian performed most of his surgeries at Good Samaritan Hospital, a facility operated by TriHealth. In 2014, at age seventy, Shahbabian sold his independent practice to, and became an employee of, TriHea[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds Claim By Doctor Shocked By Medical Device Was Medical Negligence Claim

October 25, 2022

Doctor Shocked By Medical Device Was Medical Negligence Claim: The Court of Appeals Thirteenth District of Texas Corpus Christi – Edinburg (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion dated August 4, 2022 that a doctor’s claim that he was shocked and seriously inj[...]

The Peer Review Privilege Is Supposed To Promote Patient Safety But Instead Harms Patients Injured By Medical Malpractice

August 24, 2022

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-41) (“Act”), signed into law on July 29, 2005, was enacted in response to growing concern about patient safety in the United States and the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer [...]

What Is Patient Safety?

February 19, 2022

Multiple studies have found that 10% to 12% of hospitalized patients experience adverse events, with approximately half of these events considered preventable. The prevalence of preventable adverse events has not been as extensively studied in other health care settings, but a growing body of resear[...]

For Patient Safety Sake, Get Rid Of Doctors With Multiple Paid Medical Malpractice Claims!

August 28, 2020

“Physicians with poor malpractice liability records may pose a risk to patient safety … [a] small group of physicians accounts for a disproportionately large share of all malpractice claims and patient complaints. This maldistribution has long been evident, but studies in the past severa[...]

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Tag: patient safety

Survey Of Patient Safety In Oregon

medicalmalpracticelawyers.com’s 5,000th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting

What Is Patient Safety?

Why Can’t I Find A Medical Malpractice Lawyer To Take My Case?

Washington Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges More Than Four-Hour Delay Led To Death In ER Lobby

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms Hospital Must Disclose Root Cause Analysis Notes Regarding Patient’s Bad Surgical Outcome

Report: Healthcare-Associated Infections Increased During COVID-19 Pandemic

Surgeon’s Age Discrimination Lawsuit Against Hospital Exposes Patient Safety Issues

Texas Appellate Court Holds Claim By Doctor Shocked By Medical Device Was Medical Negligence Claim

The Peer Review Privilege Is Supposed To Promote Patient Safety But Instead Harms Patients Injured By Medical Malpractice

What Is Patient Safety?

For Patient Safety Sake, Get Rid Of Doctors With Multiple Paid Medical Malpractice Claims!

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