hospitals
also referred to as: hospital
5 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Oct 2, 2018 by Dr. Atul Gawande · across every show →
Everything said about hospitals, oldest first
Oct 2, 2018 negative
Gawande: 'Big Bang' Hospital-Wide Checklist Rollouts Have Never Succeeded
“You know, saying, everybody in our hospital is all gonna use this checklist tomorrow, and we're gonna do that in a big bang. Just, it's never worked. We've never seen it work at all. With thousands of places that are rolled out, never seen it work.”
Oct 2, 2018 negative
Gawande: No surveyed hospital scores top marks across all management domains
“There isn't a single hospital we have measured yet that is doing it at the highest levels that would get a, you know, five on a five point scale in all of those domains. The average hospital has got poor performance in at least one of them, and we have lots of…”
Oct 2, 2018 positive
May 30, 2023
Poe: Well-slept hospital staff make fewer medical errors and needle-stick accidents
“And if the schedule of the hospital allows for physicians and nurses and staff to get good regular sleep, then the physicians and nurses Make fewer medical errors. And that, that includes errors in terms of misprescribing something for the patient, as well as …”
Aug 5, 2025 negative
Just-in-time inventory is a ridiculous operational model for healthcare networks
“Like the COVID was a great example. Like people, the hospitals didn't have enough inventories all run just in time, which is just a ridiculous way to run a healthcare network just in time because in a crisis, you better have some inventory.”