{"id":1887,"date":"2016-03-15T16:32:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2016-03-15T16:32:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:32:54","slug":"lets-involve-connecticut-patients-in-reducing-medical-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s involve Connecticut patients in reducing medical errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" src=\"http:\/\/b1h5m2032en80y5e457yfgsq.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/files\/2016\/03\/Lisa-Freeman.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Freeman\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/><\/figure>\n<h5 class=\"byline\"><a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"More from Lisa Freeman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctcps.org\/index.cfm\" rel=\"author\">Lisa Freeman<\/a>,\u00a0 Connecticut Center for Patient Safety,\u00a0 Executive Director<\/h5>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<h3>March 13\u00a0through 18\u00a0is National Patient Safety Awareness Week.<\/h3>\n<p>As I sit here, thinking of what to write, stories of the people who have reached out to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctcps.org\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">CT Center for Patient Safety<\/a> over the years are streaming through my mind.\u00a0 I am remembering the story of an infant whose high bilirubin level was not treated after birth and who suffered from kernicterus and now lives with severe complications of cerebral palsy; the story of the young mom who died sitting next to her 4-year-old after getting an allergy shot at the doctor\u2019s office and going\u00a0into anaphylactic shock. They didn\u2019t have IV epinephrine to help her.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/ctviewpoints.org\/2016\/03\/15\/lets-involve-connecticut-patients-in-reducing-medical-errors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Freeman,\u00a0 Connecticut Center for Patient Safety,\u00a0 Executive Director March 13\u00a0through 18\u00a0is National Patient Safety Awareness Week. As I sit here, thinking of what to write, stories of the people <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1887\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,59],"tags":[316,726,126,725],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-medical-errors","tag-npsf","tag-patient-safety","tag-patient-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}