Getting from Here to There

Getting from here to there.

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Getting from Here to There

High-Reliability Health Care: Getting There from Here

CONTEXT Despite serious and widespread efforts to improve the quality of health care, many patients still suffer preventable harm every day. Hospitals find improvement difficult to sustain, and they suffer "project fatigue" because so many problems need attention. No hospitals or health systems have achieved consistent excellence throughout their institutions. High-reliability science is the st...

Getting From Here to Accountable Care

Whether as an invited speaker, board member, or expert panelist, my frequent travels afford me excellent opportunities to observe how health care reform is unfolding on the ground in real time. After delivering a favorite lecture – Population Health: Is It the Secret Sauce? – this spring, I had the pleasure of hearing, and seeing first hand, how one midsize integrated health care delivery syste...

Getting From Here to There: Spatial Anxiety, Wayfinding Strategies, Direction Type, and Wayfinding Efficiency

We investigated the efficiency with which men and women find their way to novel destinations using directions containing landmarks or cardinal descriptors and how such wayfinding performance is related to differences in spatial anxiety and wayfinding strategies. In two experiments, participants navigated through a model town using landmark or cardinal directions. Men and women were faster and m...