Alliance for Safety Awareness for Patients
We are dedicated to saving lives and improving healthcare by spreading awareness and ending hospital-acquired infections.
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The public has to know there is a problem before they can demand for it be fixed.
During the two month hospital stay the Cole family learned firsthand the importance of awareness of hospital acquired infections and the necessity for adherence to vital infection prevention safety standards. Alicia had joined over two million Americans who, according to the Centers for Disease Control, developed nosocomial infections during the course of their treatment. Sadly, of those infected, an estimated 103,000 patients died.
Understandably, The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations has recommended all patients entering a hospital have a patient advocate with them.
This site was started as a way to pull together grassroots advocates, survivors and medical providers working to improve our healthcare system. Hopefully there will be someone who joins from every area of the country and every level of expertise.
Please feel free to share your thoughts and experience...and tell a friend to check us out.
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"Breathalyzer" for hands could help improve hygiene, reduce infections
Using the same sensors that detect drugs in breath, a new system developed by researchers at the University of Florida will reveal whether health care providers have adequately sanitized their hands before coming into contact with patients.The system, called HyGreen, could help hospitals improve employees' compliance with hygiene standards and potentially reduce tens… Continue
Posted by Alicia Cole on November 5, 2009 at 7:21pm
Gardasil, a Good Idea?
Gardasil is a HPV vaccine produced by Merck. HPV, Human Papilloma Virus, has clearly been demonstrated to increase the risk of a woman developing cervical cancer so it would seem to be a good idea to provide young woman, even as teenagers, with a vaccine that would guard against the virus and prevent the development invasive cervical cancers which would otherwi… Continue
Posted by Jerry I Meyers on November 5, 2009 at 3:19pm
Alicia's Story on ABC 20/20, Friday October 23rd at 10pm
Hand Washing Rate Low Among DoctorsActress Nearly Died From 'Flesh-Eating Disease;' 'SuperFreakonomics' Authors Say Hospital Infections Are Preventable
When you are very sick, you go to the hospital to get better. But what if the hospital you choose actually makes you sicker, or even kills you?
Hospitals are swarming with harmful germs that can cause infections,… Continue
Posted by Alicia Cole on October 21, 2009 at 5:46pm
Safety Gurus: Penalize Doctors Who Don’t Follow the Rules
October 1, 2009, 3:50 PM ETBy Laura Landro
Should hospitals start penalizing doctors and nurses who fail to follow patient safety rules?
That’s one solution proposed by Peter Pronovost of Johns Hopkins and Robert Wachter of the University of California at San Francisco. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, the doctor… Continue
Posted by Alicia Cole on October 6, 2009 at 3:37pm
Spread of Infectious Diseases May Run High with Patient Sharing
By Douglas Page
Study sheds light on how providers can better coordinate and share information
Patient sharing‚ in which individuals are transferred from one hospital to another or when patients seek treatment at different hospitals on their own‚ nine times as pervasive as previously thought, according to the first study to look at the phenomenon in-depth. This gross underestimation may have implications for controll… Continue
Posted by Doreen Mulman on September 25, 2009 at 9:07am
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LA Times - Health
Night shifts a culprit
Don't blame Starbucks: Police may have poorer health due to the late shifts and overtime they often work. The resulting sleep deficits may cause them to develop metabolic syndrome, a cluster of symptoms including high blood pressure, insulin resistance and high triglycerides that raises risk for stroke, cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes, a study suggests.
Holidays can feed binge eaters' problems
Food's central place in seasonal celebrations can prove difficult, especially with stress triggers from family or lonely feelings.Three of the most common and most powerful triggers for binge eaters -- family, food and feelings -- converge at this time of year, making the holidays an especially challenging time.
Is binge eating a psychiatric disorder?
As the American Psychiatrics Assn. considers including it in its diagnotic manual, skeptics object and possible treatments are debated.Rina Silverman's refrigerator is almost always empty. She keeps it that way to avert episodes of frantic food consumption, often at night after a full meal, in which she tastes nothing and feels nothing but can polish off a party-sized bag of chips or a container of ice cream, maybe a whole box of cereal. The food she's eating at these moments hardly matters.
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