Stephen Harden2 days ago2 min8 Steps to Take After a Patient Safety Failure What Everybody Ought to Know About Patient Safety Failures To err is human. No matter how well-designed, how well-trained, how easy, how simple, or how intui...
Stephen HardenApr 14 minStop Disruptive Staff from Wrecking Your CultureWith 3 Amazing Tools from the Former Chief FBI Hostage Negotiator Disruptive physicians and staff have a knack for causing havoc with your patient safety or ...
Stephen HardenMar 264 minA Surprisingly Simple Way to Improve AnythingWhat do the Navy SEALS, New England Patriots, Blue Angels, FBI SWAT team, and Mayo Clinic surgical teams all have in common… They Debrief their Performance A...
Stephen HardenMar 253 minWhat Healthcare Must Learn from the 737 MAXTwo fatal accidents in new Boeing 737 MAX airline jets reveal two important patient safety lessons for all physicians, mid-levels, nurses, staff and administ...
Stephen HardenMar 243 minWhy We Can't Prevent 3 out of 5 Maternal DeathsThe CDC says three out of five pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. are preventable. But we are not preventing them and 420 mothers die every year. (That's 7...
Stephen HardenMar 233 minHow Your Patients Can Help You Stop Medical ErrorsTo make a dent in the amount of harm, you must use your patients and their families as critical members of your safety team.
Stephen HardenAug 14, 20181 minHow to Use a Scorecard to Improve Patient Safety Scorecards drive better safety and quality performance. The evidence is clear that solid feedback in the form of a measurement scorecard enhances performance...
Stephen HardenJul 31, 20182 minHow To Fix Patient Transfer Errors47 percent of patients lost a diagnosis when transferring between hospitals, according to a recent study. Data from more than 180,000 patients, 18 years or o...
Stephen HardenJul 17, 20182 minPediatric Adverse Events High and Unchanged, Study FindsAdverse events (AEs) remain high among pediatric inpatients and are "substantially higher" among children in teaching hospitals and those with chronic condit...
Stephen HardenJul 13, 20182 minBurned-Out Doctors Twice as Likely to Make ErrorsBurn-out and fatigue in a hospital can be harmful - to patients. About 1 in 10 doctors reported that they had made a major medical error in the prior three m...
Stephen HardenJul 9, 20182 min13 Worrisome Patient Safety StatisticsFrequency of never events Although most never events are rare, these safety incidents can have significant effects on patients and hospitals. Here are three ...
Stephen HardenJun 30, 20182 minTeam Training Reduces Errors by 19%A new study reveals that team training in healthcare can reduce medical errors by 19 percent. Team training can also reduce patient mortality by 15 percent. ...
Stephen HardenJun 11, 20181 minHow to Make Better Healthcare ChecklistsOn the bottom of the World Health Organization Safe Surgery Checklist are these two sentences: "This checklist is not intended to be comprehensive. Modificat...
Stephen HardenJun 11, 20183 minWho Makes the Best Healthcare Leader?Those Whose Motivation for Being a Leader is Giving not Getting “The world gives to the givers and takes from the takers.” — Joe Polish Most people are only ...
Stephen HardenMar 13, 20181 minHiding during Patient Safety WeekToday begins Patient Safety Awareness Week. Many healthcare leaders will acknowledge it, but are actually hiding from it. They do this in two ways: The first...
Stephen HardenMar 13, 20181 minUsing a Central Line Insertion Checklist to Reduce Infections and Save LivesBy now almost everyone involved in health care quality improvement has heard of the checklist used to insert central lines that was developed by Peter Pronov...
Stephen HardenMar 13, 20181 min15% of hospitals will be out of business by 2019Value Based Purchasing (VBP) is here. VBP is a control scheme introduced by CMS to reduce the cost of health care. Under VBP, providers will be reimbursed fo...
Stephen HardenJan 17, 20182 minA Doctor with Surgical Errors... "The worst thing that’s ever happened".A Boston surgeon who performed the wrong procedure on the hand of an elderly woman has disclosed the excruciating details of his error in one of the nation's...
Stephen HardenJan 17, 20182 minSurgical Briefing and Debriefing to Improve Patient SafetyThe value of a debriefing after a surgical procedure cannot be underestimated. It has been linked to improved performance in various medical and surgical fie...
Stephen HardenJan 17, 20182 minTrue Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare - Difficult and FrighteningThe first thing that you learn from reading all of the self-help books, all of the do-it-yourself books, and from listening to all the marketing hype in this...
