ICYMI: #Deprescribing webinar recording! 😍

When making decisions about 🛑 #statins, consider:

✅ patient values, preferences
✅ health status
✅ current evidence

Watch as the TI's Dr. Wade Thompson summarizes current evidence:

#MedEd #ptsafety #medsafety

ICYMI: UBC TI Therapeutics Letter 160

Surge in doses of proton pump inhibitors: a sleight of handedness? ti.ubc.ca/letter160

#PPIs #prescribing #ptsafety #CostAnalysis #AcidReflux

🧵UBC TI Therapeutics Letter 160

1/ Surge in doses of proton pump inhibitors: a sleight of handedness? ti.ubc.ca/letter160

#PPIs #prescribing #ptsafety #CostAnalysis #AcidReflux

🧵UBC TI Therapeutics Letter 160

1/ Surge in doses of proton pump inhibitors: a sleight of handedness? ti.ubc.ca/letter160

#PPIs #prescribing #ptsafety #CostAnalysis #AcidReflux

🧵UBC TI Therapeutics Letter 160 🆕

1/ Surge in doses of proton pump inhibitors: a sleight of handedness? ti.ubc.ca/letter160

#PPIs #prescribing #ptsafety #CostAnalysis #AcidReflux

Dr. Wachter Bets on A Giant Leap for AI in Health Care - HealthPopuli.com “Stop worrying and let AI help save your life,” a New York Times op-ed prescribed in January. So I wanted to ask Dr. Robert Wachter, author of that essay, “why not worry?” and read his latest book, A ...

Dr Robert Wachter bets on A Giant Leap for #AI in #Healthcare

Implications for #patients #healthconsumers & #healthcitizens for #AIHealth & #AIHealthcare

Expect patient-grade #HealthAI w humans in the loop when needed

tinyurl.com/mjkt4tb4

#DigitalHealth #PtSafety #ConnectedHealth #UXhealth

Drugs to avoid in the name of better patient care: 2026 update.
Prescrire has published its annual update of drugs to avoid on the basis that they are more dangerous than beneficial.
English version, free access
english.prescrire.org/en/81/168/69... #PtSafety

Receiving reports of comatose patient w/ leg ex-fix, sent for spinal MRI exams, trapped when ex-fix (incorrectly ID'd as MR Conditional) attracted to MRI. Patient trapped for 3 hrs while magnet ramped down.

I will not identify facility.

#MRI #MRIsafety #radiology #ptsafety

Global State of Patient Safety 2025
Full report:
imperial.ac.uk/Stories/glob...
@imperial-ighi.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social NIHR North West London Patient Safety Research Collaboration @patientsafetywatch.bsky.social #PtSafety

Lucian Leape’s legacy for patient safety “Errors must be accepted as evidence of systems flaws, not character flaws.”—Lucian Leape1 In losing Lucian Leape to heart failure last 30 June, at the age of 94 years, we lost a rare physician whose...

Atul Gawande’s tribute to Lucian Leape, a pioneer of patient safety.
qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl... by @agawande.bsky.social BMJ Quality & Safety #PtSafety

ICYMI - #Deprescribing webinar recording! 😍

When making decisions about 🛑 #statins, consider:

✅pt values, preferences
✅health status
✅current evidence

Watch as the TI's Dr. Wade Thompson summarizes current evidence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqEo...
#MedEd #ptsafety #medsafety

"NHS organisations are beginning to shift from blame-focused incident management to systems-based learning. But with old cultures still deeply embedded and operational pressures mounting, leaders and regulators must actively resist a return to defensive, compliance-driven thinking" #PtSafety

ICYMI - #Deprescribing webinar recording! 😍

When making decisions about 🛑 #statins, consider:

✅pt values, preferences
✅health status
✅current evidence

Watch as the TI's Dr. Wade Thompson summarizes current evidence: tiny.cc/StatinDepres...

#MedEd #ptsafety #medsafety

ICYMI - #Deprescribing webinar recording! 😍

When making decisions about 🛑 #statins, consider:

✅pt values, preferences
✅health status
✅current evidence

Watch as the TI's Dr. Wade Thompson summarizes current evidence: tiny.cc/StatinDepres...

#MedEd #ptsafety #medsafety

Antibiotic Use in the Community in Spain: A National Surveillance System Within the Framework of the Spanish Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance
www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/14... by SEFAP Infections Group in collaboration with PRAN using the AEMPS BIFAP database #AntibioticResistance #PtSafety

ICYMI: UBC TI Therapeutics Letter 157: How to 🛑 antidepressants
👉 ti.ubc.ca/letter157

🐌 Avoid abrupt discontinuation
👀 Monitor patients after dose reductions
👩‍🏫 Patient education + shared decision-making to minimize harms and improve outcomes

#deprescribing #MedEd #antidepressants #ptsafety

Good discussion on need for #Informatics roles and responsibilities with regard to #AI deployment! #BlueprintsBeforeBuild #HealthIt #CMIO #CNIO #ptsafety #workflow #design @himssglobal.bsky.social

ICYMI - #Deprescribing webinar recording! 😍

When making decisions about 🛑 #statins, consider:

✅pt values, preferences
✅health status
✅current evidence

Watch as the TI's Dr. Wade Thompson summarizes current evidence: tiny.cc/StatinDepres...

#MedEd #ptsafety #medsafety

ICYMI - #Deprescribing webinar recording! 😍

When making decisions about 🛑 #statins, consider:

✅pt values, preferences
✅health status
✅current evidence

Watch as the TI's Dr. Wade Thompson summarizes current evidence: tiny.cc/StatinDepres...

#MedEd #ptsafety #medsafety

Illegal medicines sold online marketed as GLP-1 receptor agonists such as semaglutide, liraglutide and tirzepatide for weight loss and diabetes.
They may not contain the active ingredient and may contain harmful levels of other substances
www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/warn... EMA via AEMPS #PtSafety

ICYMI: UBC TI Therapeutics Letter 157: How to 🛑 antidepressants
👉 ti.ubc.ca/letter157

🐌 Avoid abrupt discontinuation
👀 Monitor patients after dose reductions
👩‍🏫 Patient education + shared decision-making to minimize harms and improve outcomes

#deprescribing #MedEd #antidepressants #ptsafety

ICYMI - #Deprescribing webinar recording! 😍

When making decisions about 🛑 #statins, consider:

✅pt values, preferences
✅health status
✅current evidence

Watch as the TI's Dr. Wade Thompson summarizes current evidence: tiny.cc/StatinDepres...

#MedEd #ptsafety #medsafety

ICYMI: UBC TI Therapeutics Letter 157: How to 🛑 antidepressants
👉 ti.ubc.ca/letter157

🐌 Avoid abrupt discontinuation
👀 Monitor patients after dose reductions
👩‍🏫 Patient education + shared decision-making to minimize harms and improve outcomes

#deprescribing #MedEd #antidepressants #ptsafety

🚨UBC TI Therapeutics Letter 157: How to 🛑 antidepressants
👉 ti.ubc.ca/letter157

🐌 Avoid abrupt discontinuation
👀 Monitor patients after dose reductions
👩‍🏫 Patient education + shared decision-making to minimize harms and improve outcomes

#deprescribing #MedEd #antidepressants #ptsafety

🆕 UBC TI Therapeutics Letter 157: How to 🛑 antidepressants
👉 ti.ubc.ca/letter157

🐌 Avoid abrupt discontinuation
👀 Monitor patients after dose reductions
👩‍🏫 Patient education + shared decision-making to minimize harms and improve outcomes

#deprescribing #MedEd #antidepressants #ptsafety

Healthcare leaders: Join CMPA’s Managing Unprofessional Behaviour workshop. Get actionable strategies & proven tools to handle this challenging situation.

Register today: ow.ly/3Mvi50VwS16

#Ptsafety #MedEd #CPD

A test result is in.

You’ve tried to contact your patient but to no avail. CMPA outlines:

■Expectations of the Colleges & courts
■How many times you should reach out
■Tips on collecting patient contact information
ow.ly/Ux3t50Pg9CU

#MedSky #ptsafety

ICYMI: How well do you know your dopamine antagonists?

TI Therapeutics Letter: ti.ubc.ca/letter139
Patient experience videos:

Pts explain why it's important for prescribers, carers, pharmacists, pts, to recognize early occurrence of #AdverseEffects

#medsafety #ptsafety #deprescribing

Azithromycin mass administration to reduce childhood mortality is associated with macrolide resistance that persists and potentially spreads to untreated populations. The co-existence of multidrug resistance and transmissible resistance in these populations is a public health concern
#PtSafety

Global Webinar: Patient Engagement for Patient Safety On 9 May 2025, the WHO Patient Safety and Quality of Care Unit hosted a webinar on Patient Engagement for Patient Safety, as part of the WHO Global Patient Safety Webinar Series, bringing to...

WHO webinar recording:
Patient Engagement for Patient Safety
Discussions focused on practical strategies, implementation challenges and opportunities for action in strengthening patient and family engagement.
www.who.int/news-room/ev... via @who.int #PtSafety