Earlier this month, the National Quality Forum released its revised list of “Serious Reportable Events in Healthcare, 2011,” with four new events added to the list. While the NQF no longer refers to this list as “Never Events,” it doesn’t really matter, since everyone else does. And this shorthand has helped make this list, which [...]
Archive | June, 2011
Never Say Never (Events)
by Bob Wachter on June 30, 2011 in Health Policy, Hospital Care, Patient Safety/Medical Errors, Pay-for-performance, Quality Measurement, Transparency and Reporting, Uncategorized
A Look Back – 30 Years Later – At The Impact Of AIDS On Residency Training
by Bob Wachter on June 14, 2011 in Health Policy, HIV/AIDS, Media/Press Coverage
Last week marked the 30th anniversary of the first reports of a cluster of cases of pneumocystis pneumonia in gay men in Los Angeles. While I’ve recently heard a number of reflections on these early years, I’ll focus on a topic that I haven’t seen covered: how AIDS transformed training – including my own – [...]
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The Dangers of Curbside Consults… and Why We Need Them
April 29, 2013
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When I Was In the Final Four
April 5, 2013
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Measuring the Quality of Doctors and Hospitals: When Is Good Enough, Good Enough?
April 1, 2013
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HIT Job: How the New York Times Blew it on Healthcare IT
February 26, 2013
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