Tag: Patient Safety

I got a blurb on the Marketplace website

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APM Marketplace (Business/Economy radio)As you've read here, I'm trying to help get the word out that we should be not just focusing on access...

The Growing Patient Safety Movement

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The Informed Patient - WSJ.comThis article from the WSJ talks about a trend where patients (or, more often, family members of patients) who were...

Traditional Improvement Methods Compromising Hospital Safety?

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Study: Hospital Goals Sometimes Compromise SafetyWith Lean, we have realized that improving quality does not run counter to decreasing costs. They go together....

Just as Bad in Canada

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globeandmail.com: Private sector health care: Think quality, regulationI don't think healthcare and quality is a "Private vs. Public" debate. As we'll inevitably have...

100% is the Only Goal for Hospital Hand Hygiene

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Ledger-Enquirer | 03/27/2007 | Campaign's goal is to reduce infections To those who might have thought I overstated the situation with hand washing in hospitals,...

Say "No" to Bad Drug Stores

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The Blotter: ABC Report on Pharmacy ErrorsI first stumbled across this 20/20 report when I saw a preview on the ABC investigative reports video...

What you Permit, you Promote

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StuderGroup - Conversations with Quint StuderAnother great discussion from Quint Studer's management blog (I hate to call it a "healthcare blog" because that might...

A Hospital Death in Florida

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Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog: A woman dies after receiving 8 grams of DilantinI read about this on the blog linked above and the...

Trying to Reduce Hospital Overprocessing

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A Novel Plan Helps Hospital Wean Itself Off Pricey Tests - WSJ.comKevin, over at Evolving Excellence, raised a similar issue about misaligned incentives and...

Medical Mistakes? Just Throw Everyone in Jail for Human Error, Then?

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In the news: Charges against nurse igniting a debate It sure is easier to think that medical mistakes are as simple as one person being...

Being Careful Isn’t Enough, Particularly in Pathology

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One of the core ideas of the Toyota Production System is the recognition that people are indeed human and are therefore fallible (part of...

"Doctors Must Wash Hands Before…"

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Study: Doctors Don't Wash Hands Enough Over the weekend, in a trade publication, I read yet another survey about MD's (especially surgeons) not washing their...