In the first article of this series, we explored a simple but powerful idea: Health care behaves not like a machine, but like ...

We are trying to fix health care as if it were complicated. In reality, health care is complex.

This study examines the correlation between a Culture of Patient Safety as measured by hospital staff surveys and actual patient harm attributed to hospital performance. It is generally accepted by ...

The assurance meeting is in two days. The team is gathered around a draft slide deck, not to ask what we can learn, change or adapt, but how to explain the position without being shouted at or ...

An ever-increasing number of information systems are becoming indispensable in nearly all aspects of health care delivery, from electronic health records (EHRs) and radiology image viewers to ...

Timothy W. Cutler, PharmD, associate chief of ambulatory care at UC Davis Health, describes how pharmacy services patients healthy and out of the hospital. Cutler: UC Davis is interesting. We think of ...

American health care is getting more expensive, but Americans aren’t getting healthier. We spend $4.8 trillion annually on health care — more than any other country — only to have some of the worst ...

If a child loses her balance on a log, she will have to step off to avoid falling. Unbalanced tires on a car make for a bumpy ride and uneven tire wear. An engine failure on one wing of an airplane ...