For The Record — I am a member of the Board of Trustees of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). The Board of Trustees is NOT the same as the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is the governing body that has fundamental oversight responsibility for the hospital. The Trustees serve as an ancillary […]

Well, sometimes the federal government can surprise us all. Many of you probably know by now that the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) — which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — has reversed its position prohibiting the use of health care checklists unless every patient signed a waiver […]

Last month, I posted a blog on work being done by researchers at Johns Hopkins University that had demonstrated tremendous success using checklists in ICUs to reduce C-line infection rates. I referenced an article by Brigham and Women’s Surgeon Atul Gawande in The New Yorker as the source of my information. Imagine my disappointment when I read […]