Patient Safety

Quality and patient safety on the radio
XM Radio’s ReachMD, a 24/7 news and talk channel for the medical community, has tapped into the thinking and activity of the quality improvement movement for a series that airs throughout the month of December 2007. Institute of Healthcare Improvement experts and leaders are featured in each broadcast segment.

Download the podcasts by following the links below:

· Variability Theory: Making Health Care Work
· A Philosophy for Excellence in Health Care
· Improving Health Care Quality: Investment Returns
· Safety in the Health Care System
· IHI’s 5 Million Lives Campaign
· Partnership for Health Care Excellence
· The Physician as a Leader in the Medical Community
· Delivering Operational Excellence

Patients and families: powerful new partners for health care and for caregivers
J Conway
Healthcare Executive, 2008, 23(1), pp60-62
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National Harm Study Pilot
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has embarked on a pilot study to measure hospital adverse event (“harm”) rates using the IHI Global Trigger Tool that will provide a foundation for future research to:
Develop and deploy a standardized record review methodology for measuring harm due to medical care in hospitalized patients, and
Estimate and track the level of harm in the US over time, by applying this record review methodology in a representative sample of US hospitals.
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Protecting patients from harm: listen up, MRSA, the bug stops here
L Yamamoto, M Marten
Nursing, 2007, 37(12), pp50-55
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Transforming hospitals: designing for safety and quality
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, September 2007
This report describes how evidence-based design elements can help hospitals reduce costly and avoidable incidents of patient harm.
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