By Crow
"Valimed is an inspection device. You cannot attain quality by nspection. Only by good processes and procedures can one attain quality."
JCAHO Chicago conference focuses on quality and patient safety:
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In a presentation on improvements that Vanderbilt University Hospital has achieved by implementing aviation practices into its line of communications, given by Richard Clark Jr., Vice president of LifeWings Partners and Rhea Sedon, MD, assistant chief medical officer at Vanderbilkt Medical Group, they said they found that by using avaition's best practices they could improve patient safety and quality of care.
As a former aircraft carrier jet pilot and commercial flight pilot, Clark shared what the aviation industry learned years ago: "No matter how advanced the technological system, if humans are involved error is inevitable. Aviation recognized that 70% of accidents are based on human error in a team setting and that the key to safety is managing error."
His question to the audience was "Can lessons learned from aviation be transferred into healthcare?"
Between 44,000 and 98,000 patients are killed in the U.S. healthcare system annually; the equivalent of one large jumbo jet crashing daily...
...Can healthcare learn from aviation? The answer is an with emphatic "Yes".
