WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: June 7, 2012 Featuring: Stephen Muething, MD, Vice President for Safety, James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Anne Lyren, MD, Co-Leader, OCHSPS National Children’s Network; Strategic Advisor for Quality and Safety, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital Carol Haraden, PhD, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement It may seem obvious that anticipating problems makes a whole lot more sense than dealing with things after the fact. Especially if the problems could have been prevented. When it comes to patient care, this can of course mean the difference between life and death but, more often, the lack of attention to complexities that could arise leads to a lot of unnecessary complications and suffering and costs. But what exactly do the systems look like that focus ahead of time on risky situations and high-risk patients with the same degree of science and scrutiny as we’ve come to associate with studying failures, after