Tag: Operating Room
Lame Survey about Lean in Healthcare?
Hospitals See Benefits of Lean and Six Sigma
Regular readers know I often write about what I termed "L.A.M.E." -- Lean as Misguidedly Executed. The...
Stop the Line in Healthcare: How Hospitals Are Adapting Toyota’s Andon...
TL;DR: "Toyota's 'stop the line' concept is being adapted for healthcare -- empowering any staff member to pause a procedure when something seems wrong,...
Wow, the Joint Commission Moves Slowly
Heparin errors and patient harm have been in the news quite a bit the last few years. So what are hospital regulators doing about...
Surgical Checklists in the News!
WHO Proposes Checklist to Reduce Surgery Errors : NPR
A surgical revolution: checklist that could prevent thousands of deaths
Thanks to long-time readers Chet and Andrew...
Problems at JPS Hospital, Part 2
Star-Telegram.com: | 04/28/2008 | Trapped in a waiting game at JPSUpdate: For those who didn't catch the update to Monday's post, it was announced...
Updated: Problems at JPS Hospital, Part 1
Update 5/1/08: The CEO is being forced out, "retiring" in SeptemberStar-Telegram.com: | 04/27/2008 | JPS patients get shortchanged as cash surpluses keep growingSecondary article...
Another Pathology Mishap
L.I. Hospital Scrutinized After Deaths of Patients - New York Times
It wasn't the same laboratory this time, but it's more than likely a similar...
Relying on Memory Leads to Errors
Patient Safety Blog - Telling Our StoriesHere is an unfortunate story about a surgeon operating on the wrong side of an 86 year-old man,...
