Dr. Geleris found that some internal medicine residents order as many as 7-8 times as many diagnostic tests as their peers despite similar clinical schedules.
Dr. Jason Adelman, Chief Patient Safety Officer for NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Irving Medical Center briefly describes his wrong-patient pictograph research for Public Health Minute.
Columbia Division of General Medicine Faculty Andrew Moran and House Staff Collaborators Release New 2000-2016 World Heart Federation Global Atlas of Cardiovascular Disease
The Patient Safety Research Program oversees a fellowship for training clinician-researchers in the field of patient safety. Dr. Kneifati-Hayek is the first of many fellows, joining the growing team.
More than 80 percent of neonatal intensive-care units (or NICUs) use temporary first names for patients, which may lead to errors. Changing this procedure can significantly reduce such errors.
