Leadership in Improving Patient Safety Video – Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Finding the Right Leadership Style for Your Quality Improvement Agenda

Robert Varnam, UK. Applying scientific approaches to quality improvement in primary care requires effective leadership which creates vision, inspires commitment and embeds the use of new tools. Here, four international primary care improvement leaders evaluate the state of leadership for quality improvement in primary care, drawing out key lessons learned and challenges for the future.

Quality Improvement and Leadership in a Complex Environment. Department of Medicine Grand Rounds presentation by Thomas Staiger, MD.

Don Berwick, Founder and former President, IHI, about the role of clinicians in leadership speaks with Richard Bohmer, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School and International Fellow at The King's Fund.

We speak to three of our fellows (Tom Downes, Suzie Bailey and John Boulton) about how their experiences as Health Foundation fellows have helped them in their work to improve the quality of healthcare.

Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, President Emertius and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), discusses how important leadership is to quality improvement. In this two-minute clip, he disusses what he's learned about the key behaviors of leaders over the past 25 years.

Leadership Styles and Quality Improvement Strategies in Surgery - Justin Dimick, MD, PhD

Your clinical training may have helped you become a skilled clinician, but did it teach you how to lead improvement? IHI Senior Fellow Brent James, MD, describes the skills every successful clinical leader needs.

Millions of people suffer every year from mistakes in health care. Lucian Leape explains why those mistakes happen — and how to prevent them.

Communication failures are a leading root cause of the most serious harmful medical errors, which are a leading cause of death and harm in patients worldwide. New research evaluated a standardized communication structure to reduce those errors. They found that, although overall errors were unchanged, harmful medical errors decreased and family experience and communication processes improved after implementation of a structured communication intervention for family centered rounds coproduced by families, nurses, and physicians. Family centered care processes may improve safety and quality of care without negatively impacting teaching or duration of rounds.