WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Health & Fitness:Medicine
Date: September 22, 2011
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Medication safety has gotten a lot more challenging in the past year or so, due to circumstances health care providers can’t typically predict or control: a growing, critical shortage of prescription drugs, hundreds of them, including mainstay generics hospitals use to treat several forms of cancer. News organizations have begun to pay attention to the trend because of the tough decisions providers and patients now face when preferred treatments for certain types of aggressive leukemia or testicular cancer aren’t available.
A recent story on The PBS NewsHour offers one of the more comprehensive looks at the underlying industry practices, product decisions, and manufacturing problems that have led to the crisis—a crisis that’s enabled a gray market to now traffic in scarce supplies of certain drugs in order to offer them for sale at astronomically higher prices.
Against this backdrop, and while policy makers, members of Congress, and the US Food and Drug Administration seek both short-term and longer-term solutions, hospitals have no choice but to develop strategies and best practices that assume, for now, prescription drug shortages. WIHI host Madge Kaplan welcomes three people who have their fingers on the pulse of what’s going on and are actively working to help organizations effectively manage a complex situation. IHI’s Frank Federico, the ISMP’s Michael Cohen, and WakeMed’s Lynn Eschenbacher are three pharmacy-trained improvers who’ve tapped their expertise on medication safety to come up with new strategies that can enable hospital staff to stay on top of the fast-moving drug shortage problem on a daily basis. Learn how Lynn Eschenbacher’s hospital system in particular is effectively dealing with the crisis.
Additional information:
WIHI: Innovation and Improvement in Times of Crisis
WIHI: How to Navigate Power and Enhance Psychological Safety
WIHI: Which Way is North? Setting Your Compass for Population Health
WIHI: Workload, Stress, and Patient Safety: How Human Factors Can Help
WIHI: Special Edition Podcast: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement that Outlasts Your Leaders
WIHI: The Benefits of Behavioral Health in the ED
WIHI: Increasing Joy in Work: Notes from a Cardiac ICU Team
WIHI: Let’s Get to Work on Waste in Health Care
WIHI: NO LET UP ON SAFETY
WIHI: Black Women and and Maternal Care: Redesigning for Safety, Dignity, and Respect
WIHI: Aim High For Equity in the Health Care Workforce
WIHI: Assessing the Value of Age-Friendly Health Care
WIHI: Taking Acute Pain Seriously, Treating it Safely
WIHI: What’s an Apology Worth? The Case for Communication and Resolution
WIHI: How to Make Patient Safety Easier to Explain and to Champion
WIHI: How to Speak So Leaders Will Listen
WIHI: New Guidance for Governance of Health System Quality - What Trustees Should Know and Do
Special Edition WIHI - Women in Action: Paving the Way for Better Care
WIHI: BUILDING THE WILL AND SKILL TO BE A CLINICAL IMPROVER
WIHI: Lowering Readmissions, Reducing Disparities
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