Tag: hospitals

While England’s National Health Service institutes large-scale reform, the country’s understaffed, overcrowded hospitals are in crisis.

Reporters Nina Martin and Renee Montagne go behind the scenes of their multi-part series on women who die in childbirth.

The human lapses that occurred after the computerized ordering system and pill-dispensing robots did their jobs perfectly well is a textbook case of English psychologist James Reason’s “Swiss cheese model” of error. Reason’s model holds that all complex organizations harbor many “latent errors,” unsafe conditions that are, in essence, mistakes waiting to happen. They’re like a forest […]