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Julehistorie i BMJ: Toxicological analysis of George’s marvellous medicine: literature review.
Safety III; more of a prequel than a sequel
When Marty McFly travels back to the ‘Wild West’ of 1885 in the third instalment of the Back to the Future trilogy, his mission is to ensure that ‘Doc Brown’ doesn’t get killed by ‘Mad Dog’ Tannen, (an ancestor of ‘Biff’, the main antagonist in the trilogy), and thus ensuring…
Løs problemerne, før de opstår
How to get out of the cycle of reacting to problems, so you can go upstream to fix the systemic issues that beget them?
Defensiv medicin drives af system- og kulturelle faktorer
‘Never allow a good crisis to go to waste’. Has COVID-19 provided a window of opportunity to re-evaluate the practice of defensive medicine in Denmark?
Psykologisk tryghed er afgørende for effektiviteten af forbedringsteam
Psykologisk tryghed og en lærende tilgang er afgørende for effektiviteten af forbedringsteam. Det viser en analyse i forbindelse med Project Fives Alive!, et forbedringsprojekt, der har til formål at reducere børnedødeligheden i Ghana. Projektet støttes af Institute for Healthcare Improvement, IHI.
Hvad betyder motivation i forbedringsarbejdet?
Opening the ‘black-box’ of organisational change when using improvement methodology and discovering the role of ‘motivation’.
Clinician Burnout in End of Life Care
Dr Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist, a Wharton professor, and the host of the ‘WorkLife’ podcast with TED1. Despite these lofty credentials, he often explains that his work is focusing on “how to make work not suck”. This phrase came to mind recently when reading a study by Peter Chamberlain…
Workshop april 2019: Psychological Safety in Healthcare
There has been an increased interest in psychological safety in recent years as people become increasingly aware the role it plays in team effectiveness. This was borne out by the popularity of a recent workshop delivered at the annual patient safety conference in Copenhagen. To follow, are some of my…
The increasing use of nudging in healthcare
Last week I signed-up to undertake a ‘Masterclass in Nudging’. When I spoke with the wonderfully courteous staff to make my booking I was asked if I had any previous knowledge of nudging, to which I was tempted to reply: “Well, I’ve aimed my wee at a fly…”. The fly in the…
Do parachutes prevent death?
An unusual inclusion in this month’s BMJ is a paper which aims to determine if using a parachute prevents death or major traumatic injury when jumping from an aircraft. In a randomized controlled trial, 92 aircraft passengers aged 18 and over were screened for participation. 23 agreed to be enrolled…