title: Virtual patient safety rounds: one hospital system's approach to sharing knowledge.
abstract: Understanding how and why errors in healthcare happen is essential to improving patient safety. Yet exposure to this learning process is usually limited to those events occurring in one's own institution. Virtual Safety Rounds expands this learning opportunity to multiple hospitals. Twice each month physicians; nurses; and quality, risk, and patient safety staff participate in a discussion about a recent safety event within the healthcare system. Within this safe collegial environment experiences, plans of correction and lessons learned are shared. Hospitals are learning from each other without having to experience the patient safety issue directly.
authors.affiliation: New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, New York, NY, USA. jug9017@nyp.org
authors.forename: Judy M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: Marcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brinson
authors.forename: Lisa-Vanessa
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Magtibay
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Regan
authors.forename: Eliot J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Lazar
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D049269:Videoconferencing