ISMP
ISMP
Evidence-Based Medicine Doesn’t Preclude Common Sense
If you went skydiving, would you first ask for scientific evidence from a randomized trial that a properly functioning parachute prevents injury before you’d consider using one during your freefall? Hardly.
Health IT & Quality
Health IT & Quality
Show Me the Money
The most important lesson in medical care comes from a bank robber who stole more than $2 million and spent more than half his life in jail. Named for Willie Sutton, one of the most prolific bank robbers in history, Sutton’s law grew out of a famous response to a reporter’s question attributed (perhaps falsely) to Sutton.
Consumers as Partners
Consumers as Partners
How Patient-Provider Engagement Can Transform Patient Safety
How would the world change if, suddenly, clinicians had a highly motivated partner in carrying out each care plan? I propose that a new level of safety will be possible if we shift to a shared care plan model, with patients and families aware of the plan and engaged in its execution.
Editor’s Notebook
Editor’s Notebook
Ambulatory Practices Join the Conversation
Ambulatory practices find themselves in the patient safety spotlight with increasing frequency, for a number of reasons: more attention is being paid to diagnostic errors, which often trace back to physician practices; with implementation of electronic health records, more data will be available and analyzed for medical care delivered in ambulatory settings; and as improvement efforts in hospitals mature, it simply is time to bring more of healthcare into the safety conversation.
Building a PSO “Field of Dreams” for Emergency Medical Services
Building a PSO “Field of Dreams” for Emergency Medical Services
For emergency medical service (EMS) providers in the state of Missouri, patient safety organizations are a “field of dreams” — a field of legal protection, learning, collaborating, and most of all, improving pre-hospital care.