Patient Safety

Reducing harm to patients: using patient safety dashboards at the board level
Published by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, this is the second in a series on key leadership strategies that can improve patient safety. Click here to read more.

Satellite channel for the medical community
ReachMD, an XM Radio 24/7 news and talk satellite channel for the medical community, is tuning into quality improvement with a series of downloadable podcasts featuring Institute for Healthcare Improvement executives and faculty leaders. Topics include flow, leadership, patient safety, preventing infections, reliability, and many others. Click here for more.

“Learning from investigations”
This report from the Healthcare Commission’s investigations team has been written this document to identify failures in health still occur despite the many systems available to keep patients safe. Click here to read more.