
Healthcare Errors Are More Like Frogger Than Swiss Cheese
This episode contrasts the Swiss Cheese model of medical error with a suggestion for a new one: the Frogger model of medical error. Get your...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsOpening Radio and Podcast...

Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast shows and categories...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast episodes...

The HQP (Healthcare Quality Podcast) focuses on modern healthcare quality improvement techniques and their applications.

This episode contrasts the Swiss Cheese model of medical error with a suggestion for a new one: the Frogger model of medical error. Get your...

This episode describes some of the keys for easy collection of meaningful data. Do you find yourself so busy that data collection is difficu...

This episode describes a useful healthcare value metric based on a process capability measure (Cpk) and waste measurement (Cost of Poor Qual...

In this podcast, we discuss 2 key ideas to evaluate your quality improvement system.

This episode explores To Err Is Human, & the idea that healthcare is a decade behind other industries in some important areas.

Have you ever noticed that great quality improvement projects repeat themselves across organizations? Is it because organizations share tech...

A lesson from an OR turnaround time project: failure to plan a control phase is planning for your project to fail.

Here's a useful story of how one team improved ED throughput by walking through system and finding an unexpected delay.

This episode discusses the pitfalls of benchmarking before rigorously improving your healthcare system.

This episode discusses social media tools for getting your message out with particular attention to the If This Then That (IFTT) platform.

This episode reviews how to quantify a patient's risk for a certain outcome in your system. Watch video version on #youtube here: https://yo...

Ongoing series on social media tools, tips & tricks for healthcare social media users.

In this episode, we briefly explore some facts about how data quality affects a healthcare organization's bottom line.