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Patient Safety Quality Monthly

Ken Rohde, Senior Consultant for The Greeley Company with over 25 years of experience in quality management. His roles in performance improvement and project management make him uniquely qualified to assist medical staffs and hospital leaders develop solutions to their toughest challenges. He instructs, speaks, and consults in the areas of error reduction strategies, root cause analysis, improving performance through process simplification, error reduction through effective procedure writing, apparent cause analysis, engineering effectiveness and error reduction, failure modes and effects analysis, effective data collection, analysis and trending, patient safety evaluation and improvement, change management, corrective action program evaluation and redesign, human performance evaluations, and procedure error reduction. Mr. Rohde also specializes in technology-based approaches to preventing human errors.

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Patient Safety Quality Monthly

Issue 11, November 23, 2010

• Are you rolling?

  In our world of patient safety and quality, we are inevitably dealing with analyzing and presenting...

Issue 10, October 26, 2010

• Push and Pull in the ED

  If your organization is working on improving patient flow—and who isn’t?—it is...

Issue 8, August 25, 2010

• What’s that barrier protecting?

  In patient safety and quality, we regularly talk about barriers. Sometimes they are the bad...

Issue 4, April 27, 2010

• Are We Getting It Right?

  When we talk about our culture of safety and high reliability, one mantra that is often quoted is...

Issue 3, March 23, 2010

• Olympian Culture of Safety

  Building a culture of safety is an ongoing commitment. We need to keep people interested and aware...

Issue 2, February 20, 2010

• Improving Our Forecasting: Smooth It and Scale It!

  Boy did it snow! Big storms all up and down the East Coast caused organizations and even the whole...

Issue 1, January 22, 2010

• Building Your List of Data

  Last month’s article discussed the need for the following three lists to help manage your...