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Building a culture of safety.(Practice Trends)
The authors recommend these strategies to help prevent medical mistakes:
* A core group of clinicians--doctors, nurses, and others--should be trained in modern safety principles at every hospital.
* Two patient safety directors--a physician and a nurse or pharmacist--should have "the clout, independence, and resources to measure errors, conduct routine audits of error-prone areas, coordinate detailed investigations."
* Patient safety directors should be equal to, not under, other hospital departments. And they need a budget.
* Safety must be everyone's job. When the core team ...
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- Newspaper article from: Record (Stockton, CA) March 2, 2006 700+ words
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- Fumbling the handoff.(Practice Trends)
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News April 1, 2004 700+ words
...ray, and it was too late. Eighteen months after that, Joe Silber was dead--another victim of lung cancer." --From "Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes" (Rugged Land, 2004).
Source: HighBeam Research, Building a culture of safety.(Practice Trends)