Concepts in Patient Safety and Quality
A variety of resources will be added here. Lectures, presentations, case studies, etc. You are welcome to use these but please give credit.
Presentations:
Three W’s & Other Safety Tips
This presentation was given at a terrific Emergency Medicine conference that focuses on EM Operations. You can learn more about the Center for Medical Education here.
This is a blog post from several years ago when I was the Director of the VA National Center for Patient Safety in regard to what the Center did and some of the safety focus at that time.
Safety Lectures
More lectures coming soon.
Case Studies
Case Study
This case is from PSNet and presents cases of headache in which diagnosis were delayed, perhaps because it is all too easy to write off a headache to something not serious.
Case Study.
This case from PSNet reminds us that falls are all too common in healthcare facilities, despite well recognized risks.