Tag: Patient Safety

Patient Safety: Learning, Leadership, and Safer Healthcare Systems

Patient safety doesn’t improve through punishment, vigilance posters, or telling people to “be more careful.” It improves when leaders design safer systems, support speaking up, and focus on learning instead of blame. This archive brings together blog posts, podcasts, and reflections on patient safety through a Lean lens—exploring medical errors, near misses, psychological safety, leadership behaviors, and how healthcare organizations can reduce harm by fixing systems rather than blaming individuals.

Wow, the Joint Commission Moves Slowly

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Heparin errors and patient harm have been in the news quite a bit the last few years. So what are hospital regulators doing about...

"More Careful" or "Better Processes"?

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NHS: 60,000 medication blunders in 18 months - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The IndependentTrust me, I'm not picking on the NHS. There's...

A Powerful Message on Lean and Healthcare

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Why I Work In Healthcare | DailyKaizenHere's a great one to end the day on... Lee Fried has a powerful post over on the...

Tom Peters: The high number of hospital-caused drug errors and infections...

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From Modern Healthcare (link no longer available), Tom Peters throws a few verbal bombs at the healthcare industry: Quality gains needn't be costly, Peters tells...

Let the Process Experts Decide

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Leading article: Infected by political calculationThis isn't a "Lean" story, per se, but it still caught my eye. Hospital-acquired infections are a major problem...

What Do You Think of This Sign?

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A reader sent this picture from a hospital restroom. I'm not sure if the reader is a patient parent or a hospital employee. They...

Dennis Quaid on 60 Minutes

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Dennis Quaid Recounts Twins' Drug Ordeal, Actor Tells 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft Medical Errors Kill Thousands - CBS News Did you see the actor Dennis...

The Feds Reverse Their Decision on Checklists!

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Wachter's World : The Checklist Saga: Victory!This is great news for patients and is probably great news for those of you who have been...

Another Pathology Mishap

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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...

Yes, Standardized Work Saves Lives

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'Bundling' hospital processes may help prevent infections - USATODAY.com"Bundling hospital processes" = Standardized WorkWhy isn't every hospital doing this? Why isn't every hospital administrator...

Why Do Patients Have to Do This?

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The Informed Patient - WSJ.comGood column in the WSJ today, as always, from Laura Landro. She writes about the need for patients to take...

Updated: Glenn Beck’s Surgery Gone "Horribly Awry"

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This is compelling video (scroll down), radio and TV talk show host Glenn Beck, talking about his surgery gone "horribly awry" and how "phenomenally...
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