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LifeWings Partners was founded by a former U.S. Navy Top Gun instructor, a commercial airline pilot, and two physicians who are former NASA astronauts. LifeWings’ practical and effective teamwork training programs are highly effective in reducing human error and currently involve the training of more than 13,000 high-performance medical team members per year. Measurable results are found in all LifeWings’ initiatives. To find out more, please visit www.SaferPatients.com.

Essentials For Checklist Implementation

The recent success of the World Health Organization (WHO) surgical safety checklist (NEJM, January 29, 2009) is the latest in a growing list of low-tech, low cost best practices that are dramatically improving patient safety and quality. While adopting these best practices is simply doing “the right thing,” there’s also a strong business case to be made. Read

By: Steve Montague | 11/03/2009 | Medicine

Do No Harm: Best Practices Of Safety Cultures

The commitment to “always doing the right thing” and the dedication to actively preventing “wrong things” are necessary in safety cultures. The following article discusses best practices used by safety cultures founded upon the principal of “first, do no harm.” Read

By: Steve Montague | 11/03/2009 | Medicine