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Patient Safety Awareness Week
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The U.S. loses up to 250 thousand lives/year, and $1 trillion (5% of GDP) in lost human potential — as a result of harm or death from preventable medical harm (2012 estimate)
As we enter into Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 13–19, 2022), we can reflect on the progress we…
Patient Safety Awareness Week 2022 and Focus on Healthcare Worker Resilience @ Joint Commission
Caregivers are not immune to the stresses, physical exhaustion, and moral injury that have been amplified in the…
Fixing Healthcare from the Inside: Teaching Residents to Heal Broken Delivery Processes As They Heal Sick Patients
Spear, Steven J.Editor(s): Woolliscroft, James O. MDAcademic Medicine: October 2006 Abstract There is a marked gap between the…
Leading the charge for better patient safety — Solutions by providers (Cerner)
Cerner Corporation4/21/2021 Reducing risk and protecting patients from preventable harm is a non-negotiable when delivering high-quality care. While…
The cause of low patient safety — is that the complex Health Care delivery processes are broken.
Applying the Principles of the Toyota Production System to fix it – (not fully understood yet in Health Care)…
Patient Safety Awareness Week — March 14–20th, 2022
400,000 deaths occur in the United States each year as a result of errors or preventable harm in…
To err is human: building a safer health system (2000) [Executive Summary]
A Classic Patient Safety Book (2000, 22 years ago) To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System is…