Dr. David Mayer Discusses Patient Safety During the Time of COVID-19 (September 28th)
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Listen Now Patient safety, or preventable patient harm, remains a significant threat to patients, particularly seniors, now over 20 years after publication of the landmark IOM report, “To Err is Human." The country’s failure to contain COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) stands in marked contrast to successful containment of SAR-COV-1 (and MERS and H1N1). This failure has assuredly increased incidences of patient harm and preventable or excess deaths. Among other explanations, a recent Harvard Business Review study concluded PPE shortages persist. Beyond patient harm this has contributed to the death of over 600 clinician as of this past June. A Kaiser Family Foundation study concluded as of mid-August, long term care setting deaths have numbered more than 70,000 or 45% of all COVID-19 deaths. Worse still, research recently published in Nature found when uncounted and indirect deaths, the number of COVID-19-related deaths in the US is significantly higher. Per the CDC, the number of excess US deaths since February 1st number 208,000. (Listeners will recall I interviewed Paul Epner, CEO of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), on the related topic of wrong, delayed or missed diagnoses.)
Dr. David Mayer Discusses Patient Safety During the Time of COVID-19 (September 28th)
Dr. David Mayer Discusses Patient Safety…
Dr. David Mayer Discusses Patient Safety During the Time of COVID-19 (September 28th)
Listen Now Patient safety, or preventable patient harm, remains a significant threat to patients, particularly seniors, now over 20 years after publication of the landmark IOM report, “To Err is Human." The country’s failure to contain COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) stands in marked contrast to successful containment of SAR-COV-1 (and MERS and H1N1). This failure has assuredly increased incidences of patient harm and preventable or excess deaths. Among other explanations, a recent Harvard Business Review study concluded PPE shortages persist. Beyond patient harm this has contributed to the death of over 600 clinician as of this past June. A Kaiser Family Foundation study concluded as of mid-August, long term care setting deaths have numbered more than 70,000 or 45% of all COVID-19 deaths. Worse still, research recently published in Nature found when uncounted and indirect deaths, the number of COVID-19-related deaths in the US is significantly higher. Per the CDC, the number of excess US deaths since February 1st number 208,000. (Listeners will recall I interviewed Paul Epner, CEO of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), on the related topic of wrong, delayed or missed diagnoses.)