Just saw this important article, which everyone should read and pass on. Guess what? Team training works. Who woulda thunk it? (Just kidding) BMJ Qual Saf 2014;23:359-372 [...]
My co-author of Beyond the Checklist, Patrick Mendenhall, just posted this on our blog www.beyondthechecklist.com. There are obviously many parellels to health care — notably over reliance [...]
When we discuss the feasibility of team training in health care, many medical professionals insist that the aviation safety model can never be applied to the healthcare workplace. Why? Because [...]
In her December 20th blogpost on WonkBlog, Sarah Kliff reports on a study from the Journal Surgery which documents that surgeons have left 4,857 objects in patients over the last […]
Last Tuesday, I took a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Philadelphia. It was a beautiful day and happily the flight was on time, boarded smoothly, and the doors […]
Over the past two weeks, I have heard two talks that illustrated how leadership can embody what I call Team Intelligence — the ability of people to think, learn, plan, […]
There’s a lot of talk today about including patients as members of the healthcare team.This is supposed to help avoid medical errors and injuries and make patient care more about […]
Most of us don’t think of our families in terms of teamwork or team leadership and membership. I know I certainly don’t. I think a lot about teams when it […]