This episode reviews how to quantify a patient's risk for a certain outcome in your system.  Watch video version on #youtube here:  https://youtu.be/cRrYxwMzhj0

Here's How To Show Patient Risk

The HQP (Healthcare Quality Podcast) focuses on modern healthcare quality improvement techniques and their applications.

Science

This episode contrasts the Swiss Cheese model of medical error with a suggestion for a new one:  the Frogger model of medical error.  Get your frog across the road safely and listen in!

Healthcare Errors Are More Like Frogger Than Swiss Cheese

This episode describes some of the keys for easy collection of meaningful data.  Do you find yourself so busy that data collection is difficult?  (Like trying to eat wings and watch the game?) Then this is the episode for you!

How To Collect Data On Super Bowl LI While Eating Wings

This episode describes a useful healthcare value metric based on a process capability measure (Cpk) and waste measurement (Cost of Poor Quality).

A Metric To Capture Value In Healthcare

In this podcast, we discuss 2 key ideas to evaluate your quality improvement system.

2 Key Ideas To Evaluate Your Quality Improvement System

This episode explores To Err Is Human, & the idea that healthcare is a decade behind other industries in some important areas.

Here's How To Show Patient Risk

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