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The birth of the patient safety movement can be linked intimately to Lucian Leape’s seminal article Error in Medicine (1994), published six years before the Institute of Medicine’s report To Err is Human (2000).

As 2014 draws to a close, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices honors the many exceptional efforts that have been undertaken in the past year to improve medication safety. Despite the many safety accomplishments in 2014…

A six-month-old girl is undergoing repair of a hole in her heart, and while on cardiopulmonary bypass (the machine that pumps the blood through the body while the heart is stopped), there is massive bleeding from the heart…

There are approximately 900 biologic drugs in development today. But despite their promise for advancing treatment of cancer, immunologic disorders, rare and chronic diseases, the full benefit of biologic and immunologic therapies…

  November/December 2014 Quality Conundrums Lynn Helmer, MD, MBA, CHCQM • ABQAURP Diplomate since 1998 • http://www.drdnj.com Process Explains Poor Service—A Quality Conundrum? Process is supposed to make things better: more efficient, more cost effective, and leading to higher patient/customer satisfaction. Process is the magic bullet for fixing quality and service problems, BUT not if … Continued