Safe Patients

Safe Patients Smart Hospitals, written by Eric Vohr and Peter Pronovost, chronicles the history and future of the patient safety movement.

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@MarkGraban @tbouthillet @Atul_Gawande Thanks Mark

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The NHS' Francis Report on harms at Staffordshire Trust is a call to action for global patient safety efforts #safety

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Interprofessional education in health care helps build teamwork and communication at the student and clinician level #safety

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There are great safety efforts happening globally, we need to coordinate and share lessons learned #safety

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A neurological patient with a history of hypertension almost dies from high blood pressure because her doctors didn't know her drug history

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Communication is the biggest challenge facing health care today

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I just experienced great family based care in the Albany neuro ICU

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We are currently raising money for a documentary on patient safety that will encompass the entire movement and need support #patientsafety

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Communication and teamwork are the keys to patient safety #safety

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Health care clinicians and staff are responsible for identifying and immediately correcting defects before they affect a patient

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Join Peter Pronovost in the conversation about patient safety and quality at his new blog. #patientsafety http://t.co/WbIAuNGt

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Inter Professional Education is helping make patients safer. We need to work together. Health care is a team sport not an ego sport.

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Read -- "The Secret to Fighting Infections" at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704364004576131963185893084.html

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Health care workers are busy people, change must be realistic and manageable if it is going to be effective at saving lives #ptsafety

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“We become what we do, excellence is therefore more of a habit than a virtue,” Aristotle.

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Successes in safety and quality improvement are often short-lived: A project launches with enthusiasm, a year later it’s dead in the water.

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We need to educate clinicians on the importance of hand hygiene,
make it easy for them to wash hands and monitor performance. #ptsafety

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Hand hygiene is likely the most effective intervention to reduce healthcare acquired infections. Yet clinicians do it only 30% of the time.

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The simplest things are most important. A warm smile brightens our day. A kind word energizes our soul. A gentle touch heals our wounds.