PATIENT’S HOSPITAL SAFETY GUIDE APP

Patient's Hospital Safety Guide is a free app, available for iPhones from the App Store and soon available for Android phones. It contains important information that everyone should have in case they, a family member or friend, need to go to a hospital due to an illness, injury, accident, or even for a scheduled outpatient procedure.

This App Can Save Your Life or the Life of a Loved One

Preventable medical errors in hospitals are the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S., killing between 250,000 and 440,000 patients every year, many after discharge. You don't hear much about this because hospitals hide the information since it's bad for business, but medical errors happen at all hospitals every day. They've increased significantly in recent years because hospitals are understaffed and their nurses are overworked. This has resulted in up to 20,000 preventable incidents of harm daily, and millions of injuries, many permanent. 

This app can help you protect yourself or a family member or friend from being harmed or even killed by a medical error in a hospital, recognize if an error has been made or the patient is in distress and needs immediate help, and learn what to do if harm has occurred. 

The Patient's Hospital Safety Guide app was developed for patients, so it's easy to use. 

The app includes:

• how and when hospital errors happen
• how to prevent many errors from happening
• how to know if an error was made
• table of medical errors: the cause, how to recognize, how to avoid
• how to know if the patient is in distress and needs immediate help
• what to do if the patient was harmed
• when and how to report an incident of patient harm or failure to treat

       .… and much more.

Try the online version or download the free app for iPhones from the App Store. Soon to be available from Google Play Store for Android devices. 

Share this information with your family and friends. You could save a life.

Reviews

5.0 out of 5

★★★★★

Easy to use and very valuable. A must for all hospital patients.

★★★★★

Lifesaving information!

Years ago my family lost a loved one in the hospital due to carelessness on the part of the staff. Only three years old, this child was given an accidental overdose of anesthesia. If we had had this app and this information, possibly we could have avoided this tragedy. Especially in these times when hospitals are overly crowded, this advice is indispensable.

- Thankful in OK.

★★★★★

Important information.

This app has all the information at your fingertips for the well-informed and proactive patient entering a confusing and complicated healthcare system. We all need to take responsibility for our healthcare outcomes and this app gives you some helpful tools.

- Mar@p 

★★★★★

This is a very informative document. It worked very well on my phone. It was responsive and quickly took me to good links. I was mainly reading the site for content and I was very pleased to learn a lot more than I bargained for! The way it was organized made it very easy to jump all around without getting lost. I found that as I read through the material I could follow links down rabbit holes but easily get back on track by returning to the index to link to the next topic.

I feel much better prepared to interact with a hospital.

- A. Cunningham