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The NHS' Francis Report on harms at Staffordshire Trust is a call to action for global patient safety efforts #safety

Interprofessional education in health care helps build teamwork and communication at the student and clinician level #safety

There are great safety efforts happening globally, we need to coordinate and share lessons learned #safety

A neurological patient with a history of hypertension almost dies from high blood pressure because her doctors didn't know her drug history

Communication is the biggest challenge facing health care today

I just experienced great family based care in the Albany neuro ICU

We are currently raising money for a documentary on patient safety that will encompass the entire movement and need support #patientsafety

Communication and teamwork are the keys to patient safety #safety

Health care clinicians and staff are responsible for identifying and immediately correcting defects before they affect a patient

Join Peter Pronovost in the conversation about patient safety and quality at his new blog. #patientsafety tinyurl.com/pronovost

Inter Professional Education is helping make patients safer. We need to work together. Health care is a team sport not an ego sport.

Read -- "The Secret to Fighting Infections" at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704364004576131963185893084.html

Health care workers are busy people, change must be realistic and manageable if it is going to be effective at saving lives #ptsafety

“We become what we do, excellence is therefore more of a habit than a virtue,” Aristotle.

Successes in safety and quality improvement are often short-lived: A project launches with enthusiasm, a year later it’s dead in the water.

We need to educate clinicians on the importance of hand hygiene, make it easy for them to wash hands and monitor performance. #ptsafety

Hand hygiene is likely the most effective intervention to reduce healthcare acquired infections. Yet clinicians do it only 30% of the time.

The simplest things are most important. A warm smile brightens our day. A kind word energizes our soul. A gentle touch heals our wounds.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world ... it is the only thing that ever has." M. Meade