Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
By Jennifer Mitchell
Editor, Action for Better Healthcare
At Seattle’s Children’s Hospital something is taking place that other hospitals may be able to learn from and this, according to some nurses, is leading to better care for patients.
There once was a time when a nurse working in intensive care at the hospital would need certain supplies and [...]
Monday, March 1st, 2010
American Medical News has written an informative article regarding how checklists are helping to lower infection rates in a group of hospitals in Michigan.
While checklists are not the final answer when it comes to decreasing infection rates, experts such as Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD and Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, explain how checklists are certainly impacting the [...]
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Sprinkled throughout the talk on healthcare reform have been mentions of both the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic as stellar examples of efficient health systems. Now we can add Geisinger Health System, a physician-led healthcare system which serves 43 Pennsylvania counties, to the list. CNN recently highlighted Geisinger in an overview video, “Health [...]
Monday, March 31st, 2008
A short time ago I discussed why it takes so long for innovation to be put into practice in medicine. Wow, did I get some great feedback.
The most dramatic was about the work on checklists by Peter Pronovosts, a critical care specialist at John Hopkins Hospital. He starts with the premise that much of medicine [...]
