This manual provides the necessary tools for professional associations, regulatory, accrediting or oversight bodies and ministries of health, to improve…
July 1, 2017
Articles
May 12, 2017
Pt. Safety Friendly Hospitals
A study conducted in 2009 in six countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region showed that up to 18% of hospital admissions were…
March 23, 2017
Smarter Spending in Healthcare
Smarter spending is a critical component of achieving the third aim of reducing the per capita cost of healthcare. Here are some ways in which smarter spending can contribute to achieving the Triple Aim:
February 10, 2017
Janet Brown in her own wards
On July 23, 1995, my life changed dramatically. I sustained a spinal cord injury and incomplete quadriplegic in a car…
January 24, 2017
Patient Safety Officer
The Patient Safety Officer (PSO) has the primary responsibility to coordinate and serve as a resource for the development, implementation,…
January 23, 2017
Swiss Cheese Model
The Swiss Cheese Model is a widely used framework for understanding and analyzing how errors can occur in complex systems,…
January 8, 2017
Leadership and Patient Safety
Leadership is considered the main factor for an effective patient safety program. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) developed a…
January 3, 2017
Patient Safety Principles
Systems design Patient safety starts with system design. The safe system consists of procedures, the environment, the design of the…
October 10, 2015
Pt. Safety Story – Bill Aydt
As told by Bill’s daughter, Karen Curtiss. Dad was lucky, at first. He was in the final stages of a…
October 9, 2015
Pt. Safety Stories – Alicia Cole
Alicia Cole had been a successful working actress whose only experience with healthcare was playing doctors on TV. All that…
August 13, 2015
Risk Assessment
What is risk assessment? A risk assessment seeks to answer four simple, related questions: What can go wrong? How bad?…
July 22, 2015
MERS Co-V Study, Worldwide
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory illness first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. It is caused by…
July 15, 2015
The Three Behaviors
ABC model of attitudes Affective component This involves a person’s feelings / emotions about the attitude object. For example: “I…
July 2, 2015
Door to Triage Time in ED
Measuring Door-to-Triage Time in the emergency department (ED) involves tracking the time it takes for a patient to be assessed by a triage nurse after arriving at the ED. Here’s a general approach to measuring this metric :
1) Define the Start Point: Determine the specific event or action that marks the beginning of the
February 20, 2015
HAMs Harmful Errors
Identification of High Alert Medications (HAMs) differs from one institution to another. However, all organizations identify four specific HAM drug…
December 14, 2014
Six Aims of Quality
After “To Err Is Human” (2000); The Institute of Medicine (IOM) published another influential book “Crossing the Quality Chasm“ (2002), This…
September 20, 2014
MERS Corona Virus
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory illness first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. It is caused…
August 20, 2014
Patient Empowerment Experience
Scaling Up Shared Decision-Making, USA The Health Decision Sciences Centre at Massachusetts General Hospital has created a streamlined process whereby…
August 20, 2014
Healthcare Data – Know How !!!
Healthcare data can be analyzed to identify patterns and trends, evaluate the effectiveness of treatments and interventions, and inform decision-making.
Here are some key steps in analyzing healthcare data:
August 13, 2014
Healthcare Data !!!
Overview From birth certificate until the death certificate, each one accumulates healthcare data. Each time a person has contact with…
August 13, 2014
Patient Engagement – Successful Stories
Patients want to be engaged in their healthcare decision-making process and are increasingly asking for more responsive, open and transparent healthcare. Patients who are…
April 14, 2014
Quality and Patient Safety
Patient safety is about how healthcare organizations protect their patients from errors. While many hospitals are good at keeping their patients…
April 11, 2014
Statistical Process Control
These indicators can be used by healthcare providers, policymakers, and researchers to assess the performance of healthcare systems and identify areas for improvement. Some common healthcare indicators include:
January 26, 2014
Flowchart
One Flowchart Can Replace a Thousand Words The Power of Visualizing Processes in Healthcare and Beyond We’ve all heard the…