Leading Voices in Healthcare

Leading Voices in Healthcare

Patient safety and high reliability continue to be elusive goals in healthcare. Creating a culture of safety that will allow us to achieve these goals requires a number of important elements. In this series we will address what we believe are the essential ingredients in developing such a culture: mutual respect, teamwork and collaboration, human factors engineering, and just culture.

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June 15, 2022 12 mins
Amish Aghera, MD, Emergency Medicine Physician and the Director for the Center for Clinical Simulation and Safety and the Simulation Fellowship at Maimonides Medical Center, explains the necessity of creating tools to help keep humans from making mistakes. In recent years, many have pointed to systems issues as the cause of adverse events. Recognizing that healthcare workers are human and subject to human fallibility is critical in...
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Michael Brodman, MD, professor and chair emeritus in the Raquel and Jaime Gilinski Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses how mutual respect is a prerequisite for any institution developing a culture of safety. Healthcare has an unfortunate tradition of being hierarchical, and this kind of culture is made worse by significant differences in background ...
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Michael Leitman, MD, Professor of Surgery and Medical Education and Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses how important high-performance teams are to a culture of safety. While team training in healthcare was galvanized by the development of TeamSTEPPS, organizations still struggle to get all team members to buy in to this approach. Leaders have often pointed to success in oth...
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Elizabeth Duthie, Director of Patient Safety at Montefiore Medical Center, discusses how important a just culture is to creating a culture of safety. While just culture has always had critical importance within safety culture, many are particularly aware of this concern today, given the recent criminal conviction of a former nurse for a medical error that occurred in 2019.
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