Insights from the Armstrong Institute
Saving their hospital nearly $2 million a year wasn't the goal for Albert Wu and Cheryl Connors when they created a program to support traumatized colleagues.… Read More »Supporting ‘Second Victims’ Also Helps Hospital Budgets
The moment that an accreditation team shows up unannounced can spike the pulse of even the most seasoned hospital executive. The next several days will… Read More »Hospitals Helping Hospitals Improve Patient Safety
If we want to rein in the costs of the U.S. health-care system — now equal to nearly 18 percent of the nation's gross domestic… Read More »How We Can Engineer a Less Costly Health Care System
In 2013, a 52-year-old man went to an emergency department complaining of dizziness. Physicians evaluated him, decided that it was a benign condition — as… Read More »Common Symptoms, Uncommon Causes: Reducing Misdiagnosis on the Front Lines
Health care has been thinking about medical errors for nearly 20 years, starting with the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report “To Err is Human.” This… Read More »Thinking Outside the Hospital: A Call to Action for Outpatient Safety
Every American will experience a missed or delayed diagnosis at some point in his or her lifetime. Saying that is not a scare tactic —… Read More »How Teamwork Can Reduce Missed Diagnoses
There has been no shortage of blame for the poisoning of Flint, Michigan's water supply. In March, a governor-appointed task force issued a report that… Read More »How the Flint Water Crisis Is a Cautionary Tale for Health Care
Tens of thousands of people owe their lives to extracorporeal life support (ECLS) — a treatment that uses mechanical devices to perform the work of… Read More »Improving the Odds for a Chance at Life
Trine Engebretsen was clinging to life. It was the early 1980s, and the girl had a genetic liver disorder that would kill her if she… Read More »It’s Not All About the Checklist: The Power of Believing and Belonging
Fifteen-year anniversaries often come and go without fuss, overlooked in favor of those we can mark in full decades. Yet recently, at Johns Hopkins and… Read More »Patient Safety at 15: How Much Have We Grown?