Community Hospital Gives Its Discharge Process a BOOST

Community Hospital Gives Its Discharge Process a BOOST

 

The nation’s healthcare system recognizes the need to improve the coordination of care transitions (hand-overs) between healthcare providers (Bisognanao & Boutwell, 2009; California HealthCare Foundation, 2008). Emerging entities such as transition clinics, transitional nurses, medical homes, and accountable care organizations are examples of the healthcare system striving to improve care coordination.

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From Blame to Fair and Just Culture: A Hospital in the Middle East Shifts Its Paradigm

From Blame to Fair and Just Culture:
A Hospital in the Middle East Shifts Its Paradigm

 

The concept of a “culture of safety” emerged from high reliability organizations (HROs) such as in the aviation and nuclear power industries. The objective of HROs is to consistently minimize adverse events despite carrying out inherently intricate and hazardous work. These organizations maintain a commitment to safety at all levels, from frontline providers to managers and executives. Improving the culture of safety within healthcare is long overdue and is now becoming essential to preventing and reducing errors, thereby improving overall healthcare quality (AHRQ, n.d.).

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Lessons Learned—A Book Review as a Small Test of Change

Editor’s Notebook

Lessons Learned—A Book Review as a Small Test of Change

 

Writing book reviews on a regular basis is a goal I have failed to achieve for years. Wanting to write nothing but comprehensive, stimulating reviews, I too often don’t write them at all—a classic case of letting perfect be the enemy of the good.

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Culture of Safety: How to Influence Accountability

Culture of Safety

How to Influence Accountability

 

This Q&A first appeared on the official blog of the Crucial Skills Newsletter—a weekly online publication from the authors of New York Times bestselling books Crucial Conversations, Crucial Accountability, Influencer, and Change Anything.

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Infection Control : Using Change Management Principles to Improve Infection Control

Infection Control

Using Change Management Principles to Improve Infection Control

 

Change never ends in healthcare. Institutions must constantly adapt to evolving research, regulations, technology, and economic conditions as well as internal crises.
Because change is inevitable, successful organizations prepare for it. They know they must carefully plan the change process so that staff will broadly accept a new protocol, technology, or organizational strategy.
That’s why leaders in healthcare organizations study change management.

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IOM Plans to Add Diagnostic Error to ‘Quality Chasm’ Series

Editor’s Notebook

IOM Plans to Add Diagnostic Error to ‘Quality Chasm’ Series

Mark L. Graber launched the 6th annual Diagnostic Error in Medicine (DEM) conference with a major announcement. Graber is founder and president of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), an organization that was formed just prior to last year’s DEM conference. DEM 2013, “Define, Measure, Improve,” was held in September at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

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3-D Simulation Technology Helps Surgical Residents Train More Effectively

A novel interactive 3-dimensional (3-D) simulation platform offers surgical residents a unique opportunity to hone their diagnostic and patient management skills, and then have those skills accurately evaluated according to a new study appearing in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The findings may help establish a new tool for assessing and training surgical residents.

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