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”

Framework for Patient Safety Research and Improvement — Pronovost et al. 119 (2): 330 — Circulation

Simulation is unique tool for patient safety research and improvement.
Framework for Patient Safety Research and Improvement — Pronovost et al. 119 (2): 330 — Circulation

NEJM — A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population

Another great example to using checking list for patient safety. 
NEJM — A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population

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.

NEJM — Revisiting Duty-Hour Limits — IOM Recommendations for Patient Safety and Resident Education

Is it enough ?  Look at how does DOT regulate the hours of service of drivers.
NEJM — Revisiting Duty-Hour Limits — IOM Recommendations for Patient Safety and Resident Education

The Six Habits of Highly Respectful Physicians – NYTimes.com

Beyond teaching evidenced medicine at Simulation center, what can we do to teach etiquette-based medicine when we design each scenario for a course?
The Six Habits of Highly Respectful Physicians – NYTimes.com

Institute for Healthcare Improvement: On Call: How a Simple Checklist Can Dramatically Reduce Medical Errors

Is that simple? 
Institute for Healthcare Improvement: On Call: How a Simple Checklist Can Dramatically Reduce Medical Errors

WHO | World Alliance for Patient Safety

Global efforts to improve patient safety. 
WHO | World Alliance for Patient Safety

Human Factors in Health Care

Just attend a meeting of Applying Human Factors in Health Care. Learned a lot from people from different perspectives: doctors, nurse, perfusionist, engineers, psychologists, etc. More and more people start to look this discipline on the impact of patient safety. There are several very interested questions discussed during the session: should all the cardiac surgeons [...]

Scariest Hospital Risks

How much medical simulation can do to help lower those Scariest Hospiital Risks?