Wikipedia:WikiProject Consumer Reports/Safe Patient Project

The Safe Patient Project is an advocacy project hosted by Consumers Union. In the project, Consumers Union supports various individual activists in organizing to conduct campaigns to increase patient safety.

Wikipedia articles of interest

Many members of the Safe Patient Project share common concerns. The following Wikipedia articles are of shared interest.

For anyone interested in developing any of these articles, remember that content added to Wikipedia should summarize significant media coverage from reliable sources and cite those sources.

Articles relating to Medical Harm
article	traffic in April 2014*	sources cited	change summary
Central venous catheter	25476
Clostridium difficile	66810
Hand washing	8428
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act	51873
Iatrogenesis	14755
Medical device	18389
Medical malpractice	12514
Medical error	6499
Hospital-acquired pneumonia	7720
Hospital-acquired infection	17430
Patient safety	5212
Pharmacovigilance	16122
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus	85239

• *An arbitrary month has been chosen to present a count of pageviews. This month is neither the busiest nor slowest month, and this number seems typical for most articles in most months. Through the link anyone may check traffic in other months.

Hospital ratings

Are you aware of any published review of a particular hospital? If that review is from a reliable source such as a journal, newspaper, or magazine, then you may summarize that review, cite it, then put it into the Wikipedia article on that hospital. People who search for that hospital by name are likely to find the information you share.

Legislation

Are you aware of a piece of legislation which is under public discussion and which has been reviewed in a publication? Federal laws often already have Wikipedia articles describing them. Local laws may or may not. If you think people are seeking information on a particular law by searching for it on the Internet by name, then contributing to Wikipedia may be a method for helping people get unbiased information about law.

Other concepts

The following concepts currently have no Wikipedia article, but instead redirect to existing Wikipedia articles if people try to access them. Does enough published information exist to give these topics their own articles? If so, the first step to creating a new article is collecting sources of information from which to create the new article.

Articles relating to Safe Patient Project interests
proposed article	currently redirects to	related articles	notes
Medical liability	nothing	Medical malpractice
Implant failure	nothing	Implant (medicine), Pacemaker failure

Participants

The following are some of the participants in the Safe Patient Project. Only participants who attended the 2012 meeting and who have a website are represented in this list, and the purpose of this list is only to give visitors to this page some idea of who participates in the program. For a complete list of participants, visit the Safe Patient Project website.

• CesareanRates.com, a program to examine overuse of Caesarean section procedures
• Failed Implant Device Alliance, support for people who have a failed medical device
• Alliance for Safety Awareness for Patients, support for people who get a hospital-acquired infection
• McCleary MRSA Prevention, an effort to stop preventable MRSA infection
• Treatment Trap, a book on the overuse of medical resources
• Texas Medical Task Force, promotes medical liability in Texas
• Patient Safety America, promotes a "Hospital Bill of Rights" for patients and other causes
• Washington Advocates for Patient Safety advocates for increased accountability in healthcare
• Healthwatch USA advocates for greater transparency in healthcare
• Peggy Foundation, an effort to stop preventable Clostridium difficile infection
• MedicalComplaint.blogspot.com, a call for assistance to patients of doctors whose treatment is impaired by their substance abuse
• Nile's Project, an effort to stop preventable MRSA and other hospital-acquired infections
• Citizens for Patient Safety, an organization to support grassroots healthcare advocacy efforts
• Woody Matters, promoting awareness of antidepressants causing suicidal ideation

External link

• Official website