Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals Quotes

“Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.”
― Peter Pronovost, Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out

“One study concluded that there were 1.7 errors per patient per day in America's ICUs. Of these errors, 29 percent could have caused clinically significant harm or death. Given that the average ICU length of stay is three days, this research suggests that nearly all patients hospitalized in the ICU sustain a potentially life-threatening mistake at some point during their stay.”
― Peter Pronovost, Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out

“It has been shown in business meetings that once a person has been given the opportunity to speak, that person is more likely to speak up again during the meeting.”
― Peter Pronovost, Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out