How can Healthcare learn from aviation safety?
National Patient Safety Foundation 2012 meeting, by Jeff Skiles, First Officer of US Airways Flight 1549, and Rollin "Terry" Fairbanks, physician and healthcare safety expert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaydVvH7S4E
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¿Cómo puede aprender la sanidad de la seguridad aeroespacial?
Reunión de la National Patient Safety Foundation en 2012, con by Jeff Skiles, Primer Oficial del vuelo US Airways 549, y Rollin "Terry" Fairbanks, médico y experto en seguridad sanitaria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaydVvH7S4E
Evidence Based Healthcare and Biostatistics for those who, as many doctors and health workers, hate numbers (thus the name of the blog). It aims to be a way to share ideas, resources, tools and training links, and a place to discuss specific health issues from an epidemiological perspective. Our desktop is a portrait of Karl Pearson (1857 - 1936), a prominent figure in Statistics and author of the book "The Grammar of Science" Please Share your comments!
Monday, December 3, 2012
Patient Safety Checklists
This is a link to a youtube video where Dr. Peter Pronovost discusses the science of improving patient safety. Dr. Pronovost is an anesthesiologist and Intensive Care physician, and a professor at Johns Hopkins. He has made an outstanding contribution to Medicine with a safety checklist for Intensive Care Units.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxxkz-WeV_w
More on him at this article from The Lancet:
http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673609614392.pdf?id=e16241398b8eb460:-6247bb0e:13b5fe0ac55:-39c1354526563123
About his checklist:
http://ccforum.com/content/13/6/210/
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He aqui un enlace a un vídeo de youtube donde el Dr. Peter Pronovost habla sobre la ciencia de mejorar la seguridad de los pacientes. El Dr. Pronovost es anestesiólogo y especialista en Mecinia Intensiva, y profesor en Johns Hopkins. Su "checklist" para Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos ha sido una contribución sobresaliente a la medicina.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxxkz-WeV_w
Más sobre él en este artículo del Lancet:
http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673609614392.pdf?id=e16241398b8eb460:-6247bb0e:13b5fe0ac55:-39c1354526563123
Sobre su "checklist":
http://ccforum.com/content/13/6/210/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxxkz-WeV_w
More on him at this article from The Lancet:
http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673609614392.pdf?id=e16241398b8eb460:-6247bb0e:13b5fe0ac55:-39c1354526563123
About his checklist:
http://ccforum.com/content/13/6/210/
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He aqui un enlace a un vídeo de youtube donde el Dr. Peter Pronovost habla sobre la ciencia de mejorar la seguridad de los pacientes. El Dr. Pronovost es anestesiólogo y especialista en Mecinia Intensiva, y profesor en Johns Hopkins. Su "checklist" para Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos ha sido una contribución sobresaliente a la medicina.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxxkz-WeV_w
Más sobre él en este artículo del Lancet:
http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673609614392.pdf?id=e16241398b8eb460:-6247bb0e:13b5fe0ac55:-39c1354526563123
Sobre su "checklist":
http://ccforum.com/content/13/6/210/
Friday, November 30, 2012
Journal of Public Health Suboptimal Results
The germ of a new journal:
http://jphsr.blogspot.com.es/
This link redirects to a blog that has the intention to be the germ of a new journal to share information on unwanted events on Public Health. Brainstorming is wellcome to help outline its structure and content. Anyone is invited.
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El germen de una nueva publicación científica:
http://jphsr.blogspot.com.es/
Este enlace dirige hacia un blog que tiene la intención de servir de germen para una nueva publicación para compartir información sobre sucesos no deseados en Salud Pública. Se agradece tormenta de ideas para ayudar a delimitar su estructura y contenido. Todo el mundo está invitado.
http://jphsr.blogspot.com.es/
This link redirects to a blog that has the intention to be the germ of a new journal to share information on unwanted events on Public Health. Brainstorming is wellcome to help outline its structure and content. Anyone is invited.
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El germen de una nueva publicación científica:
http://jphsr.blogspot.com.es/
Este enlace dirige hacia un blog que tiene la intención de servir de germen para una nueva publicación para compartir información sobre sucesos no deseados en Salud Pública. Se agradece tormenta de ideas para ayudar a delimitar su estructura y contenido. Todo el mundo está invitado.
How to be creative? An interesting video by Monty Python´s actor and former Cambridge student John Cleese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg
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¿Cómo ser creativo? Un vídeo muy interesante del actor de Monty Python y antiguo alumno de Cambridge, John Cleese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg
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¿Cómo ser creativo? Un vídeo muy interesante del actor de Monty Python y antiguo alumno de Cambridge, John Cleese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Washing Machine
I strongly recommend this amusing video by professor Hans Rosling, a leding authority on Global Health at Karolinska Institute (yes, the people that give the Nobel Prize).
Subject of the talk: washing machines. No, I am not joking! You should see it...
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html
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Recomiendo encarecidamente este vídeo del porfesor Hans Rosling, una autoridad en Salud Global del Instituto Karolinska (sí, la gente que otorga los premios Nobel).
Tema de la charla: lavadoras. No, no estoy de broma. Deberíais verlo...
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html
Subject of the talk: washing machines. No, I am not joking! You should see it...
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html
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Recomiendo encarecidamente este vídeo del porfesor Hans Rosling, una autoridad en Salud Global del Instituto Karolinska (sí, la gente que otorga los premios Nobel).
Tema de la charla: lavadoras. No, no estoy de broma. Deberíais verlo...
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html
This is the web page of Nancy Sheppard, a medical anthropologist at the University of Berkeley. She boosted research on human organ traffic and its ethical implications.
http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/users/nancy-scheper-hughes
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Esta es la página web de Nancy Sheppard, antropóloga médica de la universidad de Berkeley. Es quien ha impulsado la investigación sobre el tráfico de órganos en el mundo.
http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/users/nancy-scheper-hughes
http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/users/nancy-scheper-hughes
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Esta es la página web de Nancy Sheppard, antropóloga médica de la universidad de Berkeley. Es quien ha impulsado la investigación sobre el tráfico de órganos en el mundo.
http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/users/nancy-scheper-hughes
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Tynsley Randolph Harrison - Harrison´s Principles of Internal Medicine
Tynsley Randolph Harrison was the editor of the first fifth editions of Harrison´s Principles of Internal Medicine, maybe the best known and most consulted teatise on Internal Medicine in the world.
He attended the University of Michigan and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He did his Internship in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (later to be the Brigham and Women´s Hospital at Boston), and carried out his residency in Johns Hopkins and Vanderbilt.
He was a professor at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, Alabama for many years.
More of Him here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinsley_Randolph_Harrison
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