Reducing harm to patients. Using patient safety dashboards at the board level.

Provide Feedback |

Submit a Case

Newspaper/Magazine Article

Reducing harm to patients. Using patient safety dashboards at the board level.

December 5, 2007

Pugh M, Reinertsen J. Healthcare executive. 2007;22(6):62, 64-5.

This commentary describes how hospital and health care system board members can develop facility-specific "dashboards" to spur whole-system improvements.

PubMed citation

Related Resources

Are you well positioned to resolve conflicts with the safety of an order? Learning from a physician’s homicide trial and the firing of multiple healthcare workers.

June 1, 2022

Collaborative case review: a systems-based approach to patient safety event investigation and analysis.

March 30, 2022

10 Leadership mindsets for high reliability organizations. How to empower caregivers and engage patients in patient safety.

April 14, 2021

Predictors of nursing home nurses' willingness to report medication near-misses.

May 13, 2020

A systematic review of factors that enable psychological safety in healthcare teams.

May 13, 2020

Choosing a Patient Safety Organization

March 1, 2020

CUSP Toolkit.

September 26, 2019

PC standards for maternal safety.

September 11, 2019

How organisations contribute to improving the quality of healthcare.

June 12, 2019

Bringing perioperative emergency manuals to your institution: a "How To" from concept to implementation in 10 steps.

April 3, 2019

Partnering with pediatric patients and families in high reliability to identify and reduce preventable safety events.

September 26, 2018

Surgical fires: decreasing incidence relies on continued prevention efforts.

July 18, 2018

Creating a Pediatric Joint Council to promote patient safety and quality, governance, and accountability across Johns Hopkins Medicine.

May 3, 2017

Building a highway to quality health care.

September 7, 2016

The next wave of hospital innovation to make patients safer.

August 17, 2016

Reporting and second-order problem solving can turn short-term fixes into long-term remedies.

June 1, 2016

Radically redesigning patient safety.

May 4, 2016

Nurses say stress interferes with caring for their patients.

April 27, 2016

High reliability: excellent care every time.

April 20, 2016

Is misdiagnosis inevitable?

April 13, 2016

Drug shortages forcing hard decisions on rationing treatments.

February 10, 2016

Reducing preventable harm in hospitals.

February 3, 2016

Sustaining reliability on accountability measures at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

January 27, 2016

The persistent problem of diagnostic error.

December 16, 2015

Medication errors affecting pediatric patients: unique challenges for this special population.

October 7, 2015

Petty, dangerous, disruptive doctors: watch out!

August 12, 2015

Patient Safety Supplement.

July 22, 2015

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices and poison control centers: collaborating to prevent medication errors and unintentional poisonings.

June 10, 2015

The TRANSFORM patient safety project: a microsystem approach to improving outcomes on inpatient units.

May 20, 2015

Pharmacy dispensing errors: claims study emphasizes need for systematic vigilance.

March 25, 2015

See More About

Health Care Executives and Administrators

Quality Improvement Strategies

Institutional Patient Safety Plan

To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your email address below.

5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
Telephone: (301) 427-1364

Reducing harm to patients. Using patient safety dashboards at the board level.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Reducing harm to patients. Using patient safety dashboards at the board level.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

PSNet Log in

Submit Your Case

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Case

Continue as a Guest

Already have a PSNet

Account?

New Users