By Evan M Benjamin, MD, MS, FACP Health System Innovations are novel approaches that may improve the quality, safety or efficiency of health care delivery. One of the issues that plagues health system improvement is the frustrating fact that diffusion of innovation takes a long time and is often fraught with failures to spread. Throughout… Continue reading Public health’s next frontier: Overcoming Barriers to Health System Innovations at Scale
Ariadne Labs Jul 11, 2018·4 min read By Janaka Lagoo MD, MPH For far too long, we’ve tolerated poor communication and lack of professionalism by surgeons toward fellow clinicians and even patients. At the extreme, surgeons have been known to yell, bully or intimidate their clinical peers. However, there are also more commonplace examples of… Continue reading Surgeons behaving badly and what that means for malpractice and patient care
Ariadne Labs Mar 18, 2018·5 min read Clinicians from around the world are interested in finding tools to improve the quality of the care they provide to women and infants during childbirth. Ariadne Labs has partnered with implementers in over 30 countries across the world to integrate the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist into their current… Continue reading Safe Childbirth Checklist Implementation: Stories from a high-volume birthing hospital in Sudan
A checklist, developed by Ariande Labs and the CDC, to support safe opioid prescription.
By Dr. Neel Shah, Director of Ariadne Labs Deliver Decisions Initiative After eight years of practicing obstetrics and researching childbirth in the United States, I know as well as anyone that the American maternal health system could be better. Our way of childbirth is the costliest in the world. Our health outcomes, from mortality rates to… Continue reading Despite differences in culture, US and India fall short in childbirth in similar ways
Primary health care is one of the most cost-effective ways to equitably reduce morbidity and mortality and improve population health One of the most important but most neglected systems required for meeting people’s health needs is primary health care. The Ariadne Labs primary health care research team is working around the world to understand what… Continue reading Data providing important insights into strengths and weaknesses of primary health care
By Dr. George Molina The use of a surgical safety checklist was associated with a lower 30-day postoperative mortality rate after emergency abdominal surgery compared with the same operations performed at hospitals that did not have a checklist, according to a recent study by the GlobalSurg Collaborative in the British Journal of Surgery (BJS). This… Continue reading Using a surgical safety checklist saves lives, according to an international study
Ariadne Labs Executive Director Dr. Atul Gawande testified on June 23 before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging on how we, as a nation, can improve care for individuals with serious illness. The hearing, “The Right Care at the Right Time: Ensuring Person-Centered Care for Individuals with Serious Illness.” was led by Committee Chair… Continue reading Read Dr. Atul Gawande’s testimony before U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging on serious illness