1. Learning From Diversity
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Elizabeth H. Bradley
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Medical education ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,MEDLINE ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Work (electrical) ,Physiology (medical) ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Sophistication ,Qualitative research ,media_common ,Diversity (business) - Abstract
Article, see p 154 Nallamothu and colleagues1 take a leap forward in their study, “How Do Resuscitation Teams at Top-Performing Hospitals for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Succeed?:A Qualitative Study.” The article asks a life-or-death question, applies qualitative methods with sophistication, and cleverly takes advantage of naturally occurring diversity across institutions. In so doing, the authors uncover practical strategies for addressing a pressing clinical problem in affordable ways. At the end of the article, I am left with an inspiring question: What other nuggets of wisdom might we find if we were open to learning from diversity the way Nallamothu and colleagues have done? The question Nallamothu and colleagues tackle is important. Data from hospitals participating in the Get With The Guidelines–Resuscitation registry indicate a 3-fold difference in risk-standardized survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest,2 even as average rates improved from 13.7% in 2000 to 22.3% in 2009.3 Elevating hospitals from median to top performance in risk-standardized survival rates (median, 23.7%; top, 37.5% in the work by …
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- 2018
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