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Kreso Antonio Paliska,Senior Vice President — Kreso Antonio Paliska Senior Vice President

Do you trust information found online? (Oct 22)

Research shows that most doctors (89%)1 see patients who have gotten health information from the internet.

The sound of music (Jan 4)

The new 2021. just started, still with echoes of a Gargantual gastronomy/oenology (not to be confused with gastroenterology [sic!] days related to Christmas and New Year festivities.

Shazia Aman‚MD, Vice President — Shazia Aman‚MD Vice President

Psychological well being of front line staff during a pandemic (May 13)

While the whole world is up fighting against the threat of an extremely dangerous and rapidly spreading virus, the COVID-19 pandemic, our front line staff is at great risk of severe physical and psychological compromise. Therefore, ensuring their well being is an important component of public health response.

Culture of Safety: “First do not harm” (Nov 16)

Despite advances in modern medicine, patients around the world are still placed at risk by the very organizations designed to alleviate their illness.

Prof. Miroslav Harjaček,MD PhD — Prof. Miroslav Harjaček MD PhD

How the International Hospital Accreditation can help Hospitals avoid “Never Events” and curb defensive medicine (Oct 19)

Eliminating medication errors is a paramount goal for all health care organizations, but the path to this outcome is not always clear. Medication errors are often complex and rooted in systemic gaps.

Poor communication and documentation is bad business (Aug 24)

Health care delivery is a complex enterprise that involves multiple interactions among multiple stakeholders. Research indicates that better patient care experiences via effective communication and documentation is associated with higher levels of adherence to recommended prevention and treatment processes, better clinical outcomes, better patient safety within hospitals, and less health care utilization.

Harriet Smith, Risk and Safety Specialist – Healthcare — Harriet Smith Risk and Safety Specialist – Healthcare

‘Biggest Scandal in Global Healthcare’ (Jul 30)

Britain’s health secretary Jeremy Hunt has recently announced that the number of avoidable deaths which have occurred in the NHS in Britain is the ‘biggest scandal in global healthcare’. Is he correct? The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have produced research which states that 1 in 28 deaths could be attributed to poor patient care – and that 750 patients a month are dying unnecessarily.

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