Safety news roundup
- An updated Primary Care Dashboard released this month tracks the health of the state’s network of primary care offerings by measuring four domains: finance, capacity, performance and equity. A collaboration between the Center for Health Information and Analysis and Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, the dashboard shows that the percentage of primary care physicians continues to decline, and patients find it is increasingly difficult to find primary care when they need it.
- How to Succeed at Failing, from the Freakonomics Radio podcast, features Patients for Patient Safety US founder Carole Hemmelgarn, whose daughter died from medical error; Harvard Professor Amy C. Edmondson; research psychologist Gary Klein; and others. They discuss the reality of human error, ways to prevent it from causing harm, and even how to capitalize on its opportunities. Originally released in 2023, facts and figures in the episode have been updated.
- The June newsletter from the Patient Safety Authority offers strategies to prevent fivefold wrong-dose errors associated with the use of U-500 insulin. Reports recently submitted to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System document errors that could lead to life-threatening hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia.