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Showing posts with label Healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthcare. Show all posts
Friday, August 4, 2023

Real Systems Pursue Goals

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System Model Control Panel On March 10, 2023 we posted about a medical journal editorial that advocated for incorporating more systems think...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

The National Academies on Behavioral Economics

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Report cover A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee recently published a report * on the contribution...
Friday, March 10, 2023

A Systems Approach to Diagnosis in Healthcare Emergency Departments

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JAMA logo A recent op-ed* in JAMA advocated greater use of systems thinking to reduce diagnostic errors in emergency departments (EDs).  Th...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

A Road Map for Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Healthcare

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A recent article * about how to reduce diagnostic errors in healthcare caught our attention, for a couple of reasons.  First, it describes a...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Culture in the Healthcare Industry

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A couple of articles recognizing the importance of cultural factors in the healthcare space recently caught our attention.  The authors brea...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

The Criminalization of Safety in Healthcare?

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On March 25, 2022 a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) was convicted of gross neglect of an impaired adult and negl...
Friday, May 21, 2021

Healthcare Safety Culture and Interventions to Reduce Preventable Medical Errors

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HSS OIG report cover We have previously written about the shocking number of preventable errors in healthcare settings that result in injury...
Monday, November 9, 2020

Setting the Bar for Healthcare: Patient Care Goals from the Joint Commission

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Joint Commission HQ The need for a more effective safety culture (SC) in the field of healthcare is acute: every year tens of thousands of p...