Tag: Pronovost

Video Interview with Dr. Peter Pronovost on Checklists & Patient Safety

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Here's a video interview with Dr. Peter Pronovost, author of the book Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change...

A Lean Guy Watches “CNN’s 25 Shocking Medical Mistakes”

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Did anybody else see this show hosted to Elizabeth Cohen on CNN last weekend, titled "25 Shocking Medical Mistakes"? You can see a video...

Preventing Brain Surgery Errors… Not Exactly Rocket Science

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Thanks to those of you who sent me the link to this Washington Post article called "The Pain of Wrong Site Surgery." The piece...

Michigan Hospitals Cut VAP Rates 70% Using Checklists

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Here's a great story from my home state where I grew up, Michigan: "Hospital checklist helps pneumonia rates tumble by 70%." From the article: Ventilator-associated pneumonia...

Revisiting Taxis, Medical Errors, and Systemic Problems

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You might have read my blog post from last week about an unsafe taxi driver and medical errors -  Said the Unsafe Taxi Driver,...

Tom Peters Asks Where the Radicals Are in Healthcare

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Here's a great essay from Tom Peters, a chapter from his book The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue EXCELLENCE. The email that was...

Do You Know More Than a Hospital CEO About…

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If you're a regular reader of my Lean Blog, you might know more about preventing Hospital Acquired Infections than many healthcare CEOs do, says...

Happy Birthday Frank Gilbreth; Reducing Waste in Hospitals… Green is Lean

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Today, July 7, is the birthday of Frank Gilbreth, born this day in 1868. While some of his methods arguably ranked low on the...

Liveblogging the Quaid Patient Safety Documentary

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I'm blogging notes and thoughts as I watch the Discovery Channel documentary by actor Dennis Quaid and others --   "Chasing Zero: Winning the...

"Checklists" Innovator is One of Time’s 100

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Peter Pronovost - The 2008 TIME 100 - TIME It's so nice to see someone like Dr. Peter Pronovost on the "most influential" list, even...