A simple innovation to improve hospital quality and safety

When I moved from the news business, writing about crime and investigating corrupt politicians and police officers, to the healthcare industry in the mid-1970s, we measured only the basic hospital performance indicators — including census, staffing, inventory, days in accounts receivable and average length of stay. The data was not in real time by any stretch of the imagination. By the time the information was produced and distributed to managers, …

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