Today’s Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article about a California program that helps determine if physicians who have been disciplined can start practicing again. The goal of PACE (Physician Assessment and Clinical Education Program) is " to evaluate the competence of troubled doctors whose infractions range from serious medical…
The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance has released the 2009 Medical Malpractice Claims Report. Despite its title, the Report reveals data for calendar year 2008. This is the fifth report issued by the Department and contains more different types of data than released in previous years because of a…
HeathGrades studies Medicare patient care in our nation’s hospitals based on 15 indicators of patient safety. Here are some highlights from the 2009 report representing data from 2005 -2007: · There were 913,215 total patient safety events among 864,765 Medicare beneficiarieswhich represents 2.3 percent of the nearly 38 million Medicare hospitalizations. · These…
Here is a list of medical sites created by from Exposing Deceptive Defense Doctors by Dorothy Sims as posted here. *www.nlm.nih.gov/ This is the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health, with a great search site. * www.guidelines.gov/ This is an extremely useful website. It has hundreds of protocols…