Its good enough for your airline, but not for your hospital
Comments(0) What if some one told you that they could save thousands of lives, implement the change in two years, and it would only cost $2 million dollars. Well that is exactly what a new approach to medicine is suggesting.
In many of the more common (not simple) procedures that take place in our hospitals the “best practices” are fairly well documented. You need to do steps 1 through XYZ to ensure the best outcomes, reduce infection, limit the number of days in the hospital, risk of serious complications and reduce the overall cost of care.
We all assume that our doctors, nurses, and the rest of the hospital staff are giving us the best care possible. However, this isn’t in the always the case. Check out these two articles below and see what they have to say. They are a little scary in how basic steps are not being taken to improve care, but also the pioneering efforts of a few groups to get changes made.
Annals of Medicine: The Checklist: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker