Medical Team Training: Improving Communication in Healthcare
Though studies continue to show that communication failure is a major cause of adverse medical events, we decided to test this relationship by reviewing the experience of the Veterans Health Administration, a large integrated health system.
Building a Culture of Safety
The healthcare industry is held increasingly to a standard of flawless performance in an environment where it can be very difficult to manage human error.
Critical Care Safety Essentials
The critical care setting is one of the most complex environments in a healthcare facility.
Reducing Complexity: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing the Medication Use Process for All Medications
The 2006 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Preventing Medication Errors, found that patients experience more than 400,000 adverse drug events (ADEs) annually (IOM, 2006).
AHRQ – Emergency Pharmacists: A New Road to Medication Safety
Preventing medication errors, which account for nearly 20% of adverse events overall and affect about 4% of all hospital stays, has become a high-profile goal among national and international patient safety advocates, healthcare organizations, and healthcare providers (IOM, 2000).
Technology and Quality Patient Information: Who’s Your Daddy?
Try “Googling” yourself. What did you find? Anything that you really wish was not for everyone to see on the Internet?
Going High-Tech to Meet Preparedness Challenge
To confront this array of threats, public health officials find themselves faced with the daunting task of adapting old disaster response policies to newly emerging dangers. After the events of September 11, 2001, the state of North Carolina began to realize that the old ways simply wouldn’t work.
We’re Not Your Enemy: An Appeal from a Consumer to Re-imagine Tort Reform
If there is evidence for anything in the medico-legal research, it is that the tort system under-compensates the majority of patients and families who have experienced medical error (Brennan et al., 1991; Localio et al., 1991; Studdert et al., 2006).
Technology and Quality – Business Intelligence: Mining for Information
Lou Pinella, the Cubs manager, is chomping on his unlit cigarette. It is the bottom of the ninth inning, and Fenway Park is a screaming madhouse.
Technology Implementation – Executive Primer: Solving User Adoption
If you introduce information technology (IT) into your organization, expect resistance. “We do not have time for this!” “It costs too much!” “We’re already doing a great job!” How many times have you heard statements like these? Perhaps, you have even said as much yourself.