Education on Safe Intra-hospital Transport to Improve Patient Safety

An analytical model based on simulation aiming to improve patient flow in a hospital surgical suite

Surgical suits allocate a large amount of expenses to hospitals; on the other hand, they constitute a huge part of hospital revenues. Patient flow optimization in a surgical suite by omitting or reducing bottlenecks which cause loss of time is one of the key solutions in minimizing the patients’ length of stay[1] (LOS) in the system, lowering the expenses, increasing efficiency, and also enhanc...

Reengineering hospital discharge: a protocol to improve patient safety, reduce costs, and boost patient satisfaction.

Changing education to improve patient care.

Health professionals need competencies in improvement skills if they are to contribute usefully to improving patient care. Medical education programmes in the USA have not systematically taught improvement skills to residents (registrars in the UK). The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has recently developed and begun to deploy a competency based model for accreditat...

Electronic reporting to improve patient safety.

BACKGROUND Limited data are available on the experiences of voluntary event reporting systems to improve patient safety. OBJECTIVE Development and implementation of educational initiatives to facilitate the use of an electronic reporting system (ERS) in an academic medical center to measure the impact on knowledge of the ERS on reporting behavior and safety attitudes and to evaluate the accur...

Working together to improve patient safety.

One of our core aims at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children (RBHSC) emergency department (ED) is to ensure patient safety within financial and resource constraints.