Tag: Errors
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 20, 2024
Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...
Mistake vs Error: Is There Really a Difference? (And Why Leaders...
What's the difference between a mistake and an error?
When people search "mistake vs error," they're usually asking whether the two words mean different things...
Why Medication Error Proofing Matters–Lessons from COVID Vaccine Administration
TL;DR: Medication and vaccine errors don't happen because people are careless--they happen when systems make mistakes possible. This post looks at COVID vaccination examples...
Why Did Some Patients Get Injected With 5X the Pfizer Covid...
Before I get into this post, I want to also point you to another post that I wrote for the Value Capture blog:
Salem Health...
Using a Checklist is Better Than Reprimanding Someone and Saying “Don’t...
I bet the company that services my pool was surprised that I had a checklist-related process improvement suggestion for them after a mistake was made instead of being angry and wanting somebody punished or talked to...
Wrong House Gets Demolished (And It Happened Again)
Today's Throwback Thursday looks back to an article from April 2010:
Should Have Posted a "Caution: Don't Knock Our House Down" Sign?
A house in Denton,...
Medical Mistake in In-Vitro Fertilization: What’s More Effective, Blaming Process or...
IVF baby given to wrong woman - as couple's last embryo was aborted | Mail Online
This was front-page news in one of the UK...
