Creating a safer health care system for patients and providers.
The use of safety tools such as checklists have been highlighted in books such as the Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. This book (and in an article written by the same author– sorry it is behind a paywall) describes the value of using checklists to improve safety in a variety of industries, including in healthcare….
When you are getting ready to have a surgical procedure, it is common to have a variety of tests. These include both blood tests and others in preparation for the procedure. But are all these tests really necessary? Well…it depends. If you have a lot of medical problems, and the surgery is considered a “major”…