Medical Harm – General
Working to end medical harm through accountability and transparency.
COMMITTEE:
- Medical Errors and Medication Safety Committee
- Leaders: Yanling Yu, Helen Haskell
ACTIONS:
- PSAN joins the Patient, Consumer, and Public Health Coalition in making recommendations to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding coverage of Leqembi and other similar treatments for Alzheimer’s disease through registries. (Aug 2023)
- PSAN statement in support of a patient-centered and publicly transparent National Patient Safety Board. (Mar 2023)
- PSAN Comments to US Health and Human Services on Creating a National Healthcare System Action Alliance To Advance Patient Safety (Jan 2023)
- Patient Safety Advocates’ response to H.R. 9733, creating a National Patient Safety Board (Jan 2023)
- Statement by PSAN member, Lisa McGiffert, regarding a national patient safety action alliance at US Health and Human Services national meeting in DC (Nov 2022)
- ProPublica and WTTW Chicago PBS report on patient safety concerns at Roseland Hospital, quotes Lisa McGiffert, PSAN member. (Oct 2022)
- Association of Health Care Journalists Panel with PSAN members Lisa McGiffert and Patricia Kelmar, How to Investigate Hospital Quality, Presentation and resources (April 2022)
- American Medical Informatics Association & Patient Safety Action Network, Panel Discussion: Transparency About Healthcare Quality, with several PSAN members Melissa Clarkson, Lisa McGiffert (Sept 2021)
- PSAN letter to the National Quality Forum regarding patient representation on the Patient Safety Standing Committee (Dec 2020)
- PSAN Comment Letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ proposal to eliminate the collection and public reporting of certain hospital patient safety measures. (June 2018)
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