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5/10/09 Interview 2

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Part 2: Upstate Ethicists Gregory Eastwood MD and Robert Olick JD, PhD discuss preventable medical errors and the new insurance restrictions related to them, provider and patient responsibilities and such "never events" as wrong-side surgery, wrong patient procedure, leaving a foreign object in a patient after surgery, discharging the wrong infant to a mother.

Health Information Center Resources on Patient Safety:

• Never Events - Patient Safety Primer, from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
• Learn About Medicare's 2008 Never Events Policy - There's More To It Than Just Patient Safety, by Trisha Torrey, About.com, September 25, 2008.
• No pay for "never event" errors becoming standard. American Medical News.
• Achieving the National Quality Forum's 'Never Events'- Prevention of Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong Patient Operations. Robert K. Michaels, MD, MPH. Annals of Surgery. 2007 April; 245(4): pages 526-532.
• To Err is Human, Institute of Medicine. National Academies Press.
• Sixth Annual Patient Safety In American Hospitals Study. Healthgrades.
• Institute for Safe Medication Practices - website.
• Massachusetts Medical Society First-of-its-kind Survey of Physicians Shows Extent and Cost of the Practice of Defensive Medicine and its Multiple Effects of Health Care on the State, November 2008.
• Medical Errors: The Scope of the Problem, from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
• National Quality Forum Updates Endorsement of Serious Reportable Events in Healthcare, from the Leapfrog Group for Patient Safety.
• The Leapfrog Group for Patient Safety - website.

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