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on March 4th, 2010•
Last month, HMC knowledge consultant Laurie Grothman led an iConference about how the use of simple checklists enables hospitals to reduce or eliminate costly mistakes that sicken or kill patients. Checklists in use at peer facilities are included.
Checklists have demonstrated they can lead to improvement in overall outcomes and patient care. In fact, one facility applying checklists saw its death rate for patients fall 47 percent. In another instance, the number of patients needing to go to the OR after their original operations because of bleeding or other technical problems fell by one-fourth.
Regrettably, however, checklist adoption in medicine and critical care has been slow.
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on March 2nd, 2010•
Welcome to our new HMC blog. Here, we’ll provide weekly and even daily communications to our clients and the public. It will be a portal for us to keep everyone abreast of the exciting things HMC is doing. We’ll share our expertise in the quest for excellence in hospital operations. We’ll offer comments and tips in light of current events and our own research.
The launch of the blog is simultaneous with the go-live of our revamped Web site. We’ve added new features and content, and streamlined the site for easier navigation to make it more useful to you. You’ll see enhanced demos showcasing the features of our excellent service. We’ll also offer customer case studies, testimonials, and more. We hope you’ll enjoy it and get the most from it.
We invite you to stay tuned. There are many exciting developments and opportunities we see in the dynamic field of hospital performance management.
The HMC Team
