Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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

Medical errors - Prevention --- Hospitals - Safety measures --- Lists --- Quality Assurance, Health Care - methods - United States - Personal Narratives --- Hospital Administration - methods - United States - Personal Narratives --- Medical Errors - prevention & control - United States - Personal Narratives --- Safety Management - methods - United States - Personal Narratives --- Pronovost, Peter J. --- Medical errors --- Hospitals --- Lists. --- Quality Assurance, Health Care --- Hospital Administration --- Medical Errors --- Safety Management --- Prevention. --- Safety measures. --- Methods --- Prevention & control