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Checklists Can Save Lives
By Avery Comarow -
Comarow On Quality
- January 17, 2008
But the plug was pulled on a large research project because the sponsor didn't follow one.
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When Good Safety Intentions Go Bad
By Avery Comarow -
Comarow On Quality
- December 3, 2007
Too few workers, too much to do, and too little time to do it can undermine the best of high-tech safety fixes.
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An Incisive Close-Up of Surgery Mistakes
By Avery Comarow -
Comarow On Quality
- November 16, 2007
The risk of an error in the OR is small, but we don't really know what it is.
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Do You Know the Drugs You're Taking?
By Avery Comarow -
Comarow On Quality
- October 12, 2007
In an emergency, doctors had better be able to find out fast if you're on a risky medication.
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Protecting Patients Popping Piles of Pills
By Avery Comarow -
Comarow On Quality
- September 11, 2007
Drug interactions and unknown risks of new medications loom as a hazard for the aging U.S. population.
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It's Been a Year. How Safe Are Your Drugs Now?
By Avery Comarow -
Comarow On Quality
- September 6, 2007
A scathing report on the Food and Drug Administration has created scarcely a ripple, says an expert commentator.
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How Do You Put a Yardstick on Safety?
By Avery Comarow -
Comarow On Quality
- July 17, 2007
Making patient safety one of the elements of the Best Hospitals methodology has been a goal for us and our resourceful and skilled contractor, RTI International, for several years. We're working on it and getting closer.
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Pulling Back the Curtains
Comarow On Quality
- May 4, 2007
It was hard to keep from cringing as I leafed through the results of a physician survey centering on quality of care. They were just released by the American College of Physician Executives, whose members consist mostly of doctors with management responsibilities.
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What Does Quality Mean, Anyway?
Comarow On Quality
- April 24, 2007
If the quality and safety of your medical care fell short in some way, would you have any idea? Do you know where and when you should be on guard, what hospitals and clinics are doing to treat and protect patients better, and what steps do and don't work? All of that and more will be within the scope of this blog..
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