Patient safety in medical residency training: Balancing bravery and checklists

A patient safety education program in a medical physics residency

Education in patient safety and quality of care is a requirement for radiation oncology residency programs according to accrediting agencies. However, recent surveys indicate that most programs lack a formal program to support this learning. The aim of this report was to address this gap and share experiences with a structured educational program on quality and safety designed specifically for ...

Patient safety in interventional radiological procedures: safety checklists and protocols.

Effectiveness of Surgical Safety Checklists in Improving Patient Safety.

Wrong-site surgery is all too common. Despite more than a decade of campaigns by major organizations to prevent these events, there are still reports of such mistakes. This article reviews the recent literature on surgical safety checklists and other tools designed to prevent wrong-site surgery and improve patient safety in the operating room. Emphasis is placed on how well institutions comply ...

The Gordon Wilson Lecture: work hours, sleep and patient safety in residency training.

In February, 2005, I was asked by the Department of Anesthesia at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston to attend their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report rounds to discuss a fallasleep motor vehicle crash that had occurred on February 20, 2005 in one of their trainees. The trainee was a 39-year-old white male who was in his fifth postgraduate year of training as an anesthesia fellow (C...

Chapter 23. Pre-Anesthesia Checklists To Improve Patient Safety

No matter how rote the task or how vigilant the anesthesiologist, “slips” and other errors represent expected aspects of human performance. Evaluation and subsequent improvement of standard checkout procedures promises to increase patient safety in the perioperative period by removing more of the “human factors” so often implicated in anesthesia adverse events. The use of pre-flight checklists ...