Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals · How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care From the Inside Out
- Authors
- Pronovost, Peter & Vohr, Eric
- Publisher
- Hudson Street Press
- Tags
- medical , prevention , safety measures , health , lists , health care delivery , health & fitness , health care issues , hospitals , medical errors , hospital administration & care , general
- ISBN
- 9781594630644
- Date
- 2010-02-18T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.30 MB
- Lang
- en
First, do no harm. Doctors, nurses, and clinicians swear by this code of conduct. Yet, medical errors are made every single day-avoidable mistakes that often cost lives. Inspired by two such mistakes, Dr. Peter Pronovost made it his personal mission to improve patient safety and make preventable deaths a thing of the past, one hospital at a time.
Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals shows how Dr. Pronovost started a revolution by creating a simple checklist that standardized a common ICU procedure. His reforms are being implemented in all fifty states and have saved hundreds of lives by cutting hospital-acquired infection rates by 70%. Atul Gawande profiled Dr. Pronovost's reforms in a New Yorker article and his bestselling book The Checklist Manifesto is based upon Dr. Pronovost's success in patient safety. But Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals is the real story: an inspiring, thought-provoking, accessible insider's narrative about how doctors and nurses are improving patient care for all Americans, today.