By: Brian Nass
Senior Advisor, Lean Advisors Inc.
Brian Nass has worked in quality and continuous improvement for over 20 years. He held several leadership positions at Mayo Clinic including Executive Director of Continuous Improvement and COO of Lab Services. Most recently, he served as VP, Performance Improvement at Mission Health System
in North Carolina.
Double Checking the Efficacy of
Double-Checks
A very commonly-implemented intervention when attempting to "mistake-proof" a process involving humans is the double-check. Double-checks are, by their nature, waste.
Often, double-checks are put in place as temporary stop-gap measures while more effective, value-adding countermeasures are devised and implemented. While a perfectly-implemented double-check does indeed improve error rate, it does not come close to serving as effectively as a prevention-based mistake proof device (poka yoke) and should therefore be considered a weak intervention . Read More... |
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Date: Thursday June 13, 2013 Time: 1:00pm EDT Presented by: Brian Nass, Senior Advisor Topic: Effective Mistake Proofing in Healthcare Mistake-Proofing (or Poka Yoke) prevents mistakes from being made or makes the mistake obvious at a glance, corrective action can then be taken before a patient is harmed. It's a common sense approach to create low-cost, effective design changes that reduce errors. Register Today! |
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