The Patient’s Guide to Preventing Medical Errors

Come across a book name from twitter, it is called The Patient’s Guide to Preventing Medical Errors.  I am surprised patient ever need this kind of book.  That means the heath care system is in a big trouble.  We never need a book called ” Passenger’s Guide to Preventing Aviation Errors”

2010 International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care

 2010 International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care. Good venue to share the simulation experience to other quality improvement expert in this field. 

The eLearning Guild : Immersive Learning Simulations 2008 : Research Library

Very interesting about e-learning. 
The eLearning Guild : Immersive Learning Simulations 2008 : Research Library

Hefty Health Spending in Stimulus Bill

Good for patients and healthcare professionals.  Looking forward more focus on the science of healthcare delivery.
Hefty Health Spending in Stimulus Bill

JAMA — Clinicians in Quality Improvement: A New Career Pathway in Academic Medicine, February 18, 2009, Shojania and Levinson 301 (7): 766

Simulation is one great Quality Improvement tool for training, assessment and analysis of the healthcare delivery.  The future is bright.
JAMA — Clinicians in Quality Improvement: A New Career Pathway in Academic Medicine, February 18, 2009, Shojania and Levinson 301 (7): 766

Airlines go two years with no fatalities – but a plane goes down into Hudson River few minutes ago

When I attend the 9th IMSH meeting at Florida, read the story about the safety record set by the airline industry. Airlines go two years with no fatalities. It is pretty amazing see their years efforts on safety made a difference.  But just  back to office today and head the news about  Planes goes down [...]

Simulation in Medicine – a knol by Diane Sliwka

The Google version of Wiki on Simulation compare to the version from Wikipedia.  Which you do you like ?
Simulation in Medicine – a knol by Diane Sliwka

Performance of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and Anesthesiologists in a Simulation-Based Skills Assessment — Henrichs et al. 108 (1): 255 — Anesthesia & Analgesia

Another good example to using simulation for assessment (beyond education training).  Also see the EDITORIAL in the same issue.  It  remind me Dr. Gaba’s paper again for the future vision of simulation in health care
Performance of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and Anesthesiologists in a Simulation-Based Skills Assessment — Henrichs et al. 108 (1): 255 — [...]

ACS NSQIP

The ACS NSQIP provides a good model to systematic collect, analyze and act on outcomes data from daily practice. A paper published by Annals of Surgery gave a detail metrics to measure surgical quality and safety.

PLoS Medicine – How Do US Journalists Cover Treatments, Tests, Products, and Procedures? An Evaluation of 500 Stories

Make us think the impact of our research work in the eyes of the general public.
PLoS Medicine – How Do US Journalists Cover Treatments, Tests, Products, and Procedures? An Evaluation of 500 Stories