Safe patients, smart hospitals
Subtitle: how one doctor's checklist can help us change healthcare from the inside out
By: Peter Pronovost and Eric Vohr.
Contributors: Vohr, Eric.
Publisher: Hudson Street Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781594630644
Subjects: Medical errors -- Prevention; Hospitals -- Safety measures; Lists
Description: While Americans spend more on health care than any other country in the western world, our hospitals and clinics kill more patients. Patient safety expert Dr. Peter Pronovost is working to remedy that, by changing the way hospitals and doctors function day to day. In fact, his ideas are already saving people. By introducing a five-step checklist that standardizes a common ICU procedure, Dr. Pronovost has decreased the rate of infection--and as a result, unnecessary deaths--across the country by 90 percent. In this book, Dr. Pronovost makes reform relatable, easy to understand, and inspiring.--From publisher description.