Patient Safety

Patient safety is a major initiative in health care. Increasing member awareness of patient safety issues and providing neurologists with tools and programs to enhance patient safety can:

• Improve patient care
• Facilitate the creation of more efficient office practices
• Improve practice risk management strategies

More information on Patient Safety

Special Request: Neurologists Asked to Monitor Patients for Post-Vaccine Related Guillain-Barré Syndrome

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) are requesting neurologists to report any possible new cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) following 2009 H1N1 flu vaccination using the CDC and US Food and Drug Administration Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

It is not anticipated that the 2009 H1N1 vaccine will have an increased risk of GBS. However, out of an abundance of caution, and given that GBS may be of greater concern with any pandemic vaccine because of the association of GBS with the 1976 swine flu vaccine, the CDC and AAN are asking neurologists to report any potential new cases of GBS after-vaccination as part of the CDC's national vaccine safety monitoring campaign.

Find out more about GBS and the adverse event reporting process.