Editor’s Notebook: Good Advice from a Surgeon and Writer
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon and writer whose work focuses on understanding medical errors and improving the performance of physicians.
Delivering the Promise to Healthcare: Improving Patient Safety and Quality of Care Using Aviation CRM
The application of proven aviation crew resource management (CRM) technology and training to the reduction of medical errors is a steadily emerging area of human factors.
Zero Errors: Aiming for Zero Errors. Clarian’s Safe Passage Program Improves Infusion Safety
Few issues command as much attention in the healthcare industry as patient safety. As healthcare professionals and hospital administrators know, nurses are key players in patient safety programs.
Medication Safety – Averting Highest-Risk Errors Is First Priority Part II: Nursing Satisfaction,Wireless Networking,”Smart”Pain Management, Best Practice Improvements, and ROI
Targeting medication safety efforts to give first priority to averting the highest-risk errors allows hospitals to achieve the most rapid and significant impact on improving medication safety.
What Really Ails Us?: Part I – Failure to Rescue and Errors of Omission
The problem of patients developing complications during hospitalization and suffering morbidity and mortality as a consequence has always been present. But recently, intense attention has been focused on this phenomenon, as it is the primary cause of preventable hospital mortality.
Technology & Quality – Path Innovation: Transcending Automation
After a brief reprieve during the 1990s, healthcare again faces the vexing problem of rising healthcare costs with accompanying increases in premiums and out-of-pocket costs for consumers.
Quality Platform – Proceedings from the Quality Colloquium: Baldrige as a Quality Platform
Baptist Hospital, Inc. (BHI), in Pensacola, Florida, first entered the formal world of continuous quality improvement with the adoption of continuous quality improvement/total quality management (CQI/TQM) techniques in 1991.
Performance Excellence: Proceedings from the Quality Colloquium Using the Baldrige Criteria to Achieve Performance Excellence
The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence have proven in healthcare as well as other industries to be an effective roadmap through complex and challenging conditions.
Next Steps – Patient Safety: It’s Not Just About the Technology…
Patient safety is at the top of the agenda for hospital executives. Every hospital’s growth strategy presumes compliance with accepted medical practices and access to thorough and current patient information at every point where care is administered.
Medication Safety – Compliance Made Easy: Understanding USP 797
During the 1960s, the practice of pharmacy began growing and evolving. In response to an increasing number of patient injuries due to medication delivery and sterile compounding, the industry began calling attention to safety.