January 2010
8 posts
The New Yorker: A Doctor in the Rubble Posted by... →
Also read Tracy Kidder’s book: Mountains Beyond Mountains http://photos.pih.org/inforesources/books/mbm.html
A wonderful story of dedication, perserverance and fighting for your passion. It was one of the first books that I read after our tragedy that inspired me beyond words. It made me believe that we can make a difference healthcare if we have the passion to do so. Dr. Farmer is amazing...
What makes children’s hospitals different from a... →
“Caring for your children can be the most important thing you can do as a parent and adult. Children’s hospitals believe, and most parents would agree, that children should be treated with understanding, compassion, and carefulness to enable them to receive the best possible health care. These hospitals are specially made to provide quality health care to your children, using the family as...
AHRQ: 10 Patient Safety Tips for Hospitals... →
“Medical errors may occur in different health care settings, and those that happen in hospitals can have serious consequences. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which has sponsored hundreds of patient safety research and implementation projects, offers these 10 evidence-based tips to prevent adverse events from occurring in your hospital. Ordering information and links...
Atul Gawande's 'Checklist' For Surgery Success... →
“I come out of my operations and then I go out and talk to the family and they say ‘Doctor, thank you for saving my husband!’ ” Gawande says. “You feel a little bit like a fraud because you know how much you were dependent on everybody getting this right. And when we acknowledge it, that’s when we come back to ideas like checklists.”
Atul’s new...
How’s Your Hand Hygiene? (via The Truax... →
“Hand hygiene remains problematic at almost every healthcare facility we visit. Nationally we are still only seeing less than 50% compliance rates for hand hygiene (rates for physicians historically always lagging behind those for nurses). It remains enigmatic that an intervention that costs so little in terms of time and money yet is so remarkably effective in reducing nosocomial infection...
