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November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Kimberley B. Chapman provides detail from her front-line staff perspective of how her hospital has grappled with implementing the nurse-led, quality improvement program, and ultimately changed the care they provide.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) is helping to redesign hospital care by developing new nursing leaders. Pamela Austin Thomas, CEO of the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), asserts that TCAB has the potential to change decision-making in the entire health care system.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Nursing students need to be taught the guiding principles of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led, quality improvement program, from the first day of nursing school so that their entire education prepares them to work in a collaborative, adaptive environment centered on patient care, according to this article on curriculum and TCAB.
May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Institute for Family-Centered Care and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement convened a meeting of experts designed to develop a set of recommendations for key constituents in health care for advancing patient- and family-centered care.
December 1, 2011 | Program Result Report
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine applied a step-by-step approach used to dramatically reduce aviation fatalities to improve the use of two devices that account for a disproportionate share of medical errors in hospitals.
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Over the past decade, advances in the quality of care have been slow. One area of success, however, has been in combating central line–associated bloodstream infections.
July 14, 2010 | Commentary
In this commentary, Dr. Pronovost calls for greater accountability for patient safety within the U.S. health care system. He emphasizes the role of teamwork in reducing CLABSI and other preventable infections.
August 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Implementation of a standardized briefing and debriefing tool in a large regional medical center was a practical and feasible strategy to improve perceptions of interdisciplinary communication and teamwork in the operating room.
April 7, 2009 | Journal Article
A proposed public-private partnership to help the health care community emulate the successes of the Commercial Aviation Safety Team in commercial aviation.