Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 21st edition (2022). Chapter 8, The Safety and Quality of Health Care was written by Dr. David Bates. Chapter 9, Diagnosis: Reducing Errors and Improving Quality, was written by Dr. Gordy Schiff.
Patient Safety Primer Offers Strategies to Prevent Medication Errors The Patient Safety Primer outlines strategies providers can use at each stage of the medication use pathway – prescribing, transcribing, dispensing, administration – to prevent adverse drug events (ADEs). It also identifies known risk factors for ADEs, including health literacy, patient characteristics, high alert medications and transitions in care. (2019)
Time to Invest in Patient Safety is Now (With Dr. David Bates) Dr. David Bates, principal investigator of the SafeCare study, discusses the importance of investing in innovative patient safety technologies that can both improve care and the bottom line. "Most organizations know a lot about what they're spending, but they know very little about what the costs of the harm that they create are," he says. Watch this brief interview to learn more about the true cost of adverse events, as well as the steps that clinical leaders can take now to get ahead of harm. (2024)
Dr. David Bates: Clinical Surveillance Makes Patient Care Safer Dr. David Bates, principal investigator of the SafeCare Study, discusses the findings of his landmark research, sharing why he believes all hospitals should be using clinical surveillance technology to improve patient safety. Watch this short interview to learn more about the current state of patient safety, as well as the steps that clinical leaders can take now to address issues and improve care. (2023)
Leadership in Improving Patient Safety Video (Brigham and Women's Hospital) David Bates, MD, Senior Vice President for Quality and Safety at Brigham and Women's Hospital, describes practices that reduce the frequency of medication dispensing errors in hospitalized patients including computerized physician order entry, medication bar coding and electronic medication administration records as well as new technologies that will further improve patient safety. (2014)
The Center has done extensive research around fall prevention, led by Dr. Patti Dykes. A list of publications can be found here and our Patient-Centered Fall Prevention Toolkit – Fall TIPS (Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety) – may be found here. The initial study was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The site hosted over 24,000 sessions in the past year, including over 17,000 new national and international visitors.
Medical Error’s Stubborn Threat to Hospital Patients. Patient Safety Podcast from CRICO, the insurance program for all of the Harvard Medical institutions and their affiliates. David Bates, MD discusses research he and his colleagues published in the New England Journal of Medicine “The Safety of Inpatient Healthcare”, finding the patient safety movement still has a long way to go. (2023)
David W. Bates, MD is interviewed by Dr. Robert Wachter, Editor, AHRQ Web M&M on AHRQ Web M&M's Perspectives on Safety – Computerization and Information Technology. In Conversation with...David W. Bates, MD, MSc. (2008)
In an October 2021 article in Scientific American called Deadly Falls among the Elderly Are on the Rise, Dr. Patti Dykes talks about the risk of seniors falling and their potential for subsequent deterioration.
Find out how David Bates amuses himself when not seeing patients, conducting research and running a hospital. In a video by the Brigham and Women's Hospital Public Affairs office, Dr. Bates reveals his other passions. On Birding, Climbing and Extreme Skiing
The National Quality Forum (NQF), part of The Joint Commission, names David W. Bates, MD the recipient of the 2002 John M. Eisenberg Award for Patient Safety Research for excellence in promoting patient safety and quality care.
2005
The Institute of Medicine of Chicago Leader of the Year names Dr. Gordy Schiff as the Chicago Patient Safety Leader of the Year.
2006
The Institute for Safe Medical Practice bestows its LifetimeAchievementAward upon Dr. Gordy Schiff.
American Academy of Nursing names Dr. Patricia Dykes an electedfellow to recognize her extraordinary contributions to improving health. The Academy represents nursing’s most accomplished leaders in policy, research, administration, practice, and academia.
2011
The American College of Medical Informatics names Dr. Patricia Dykes as an elected fellow in recognition of her significant and sustained contributions to the field of biomedical informatics. The College is an elected body of fellows within the American Medical Informatics Association.
The AmericanAcademyofNursing welcomes Patricia C. Dykes, PhD into this elected academy.
2016
The American College of Medical Informatics presents David W. Bates, MD with the Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence, the highest honor in informatics presented to an individual whose personal commitment and dedication to biomedical informatics has made a lasting impression on healthcare and biomedicine.
The American Medical Informatics Association bestows The Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award upon Dr. Patricia Dykes, in recognition of her distinguished career having a significant impact permeating patient care and the discipline of nursing, while also using informatics to transform patient care.
2017
The John P. Glaser Health Informatics Society awards Dr. David Westfall Bates with the Glaser Health Informatics Innovator Award, which recognizes innovators in the field of health informatics.
Boston Magazine names Dr. David W. Bates to its Top Doctors list.
2021
Boston Magazine names Dr. David W. Bates to its Top Doctors list.
The American Medical Informatics Association presents the Harriet H. Werley Award to Dr. Patricia Dykes. The award honors a nurse who is the first author of a paper presented at the AMIA Annual Symposium that is judged to be of exceptional scholarship and contribution to the advancement of nursing science through informatics.
For excellence in nursing research, Dr. Patricia Dykes received the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame award from the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing in 2022. This honor recognizes nurse researchers whose work has improved the nursing profession and the lives of the people they serve.
Boston Magazine names Dr. David W. Bates to its Top Doctors list.
2023
Research.com names Dr. David W. Bates to its Best Scientists list: #429 globally and #291 in the U.S. and to its Best Medical Scientists list: #220 globally and #146 in the U.S.
Boston Magazine names Dr. David W. Bates to its Top Doctors list.
2024
Boston Magazine names Dr. David W. Bates to its Top Doctors list.
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