Check a Box. Save a Life: How Student Leadership Is Shaking Up Health Care and Driving a Revolution in Patient Safety
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Daniel Henderson, BS, Andrew Carson-Stevens, BSc, Jordan Bohnen, AB, Lily Gutnik, BA, Shabnam Hafiz, MPH, and Shannon Mills, MHS. "Check a Box. Save a Life: How Student Leadership Is Shaking Up Health Care and Driving a Revolution in Patient Safety." Journal of Patient Safety 6.1 (2010): 43-47.
This journal article explores how students mobilized around a common patient safety improvement project: spreading the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist. Read on to find out how students leveraged social media and veered away from the traditional model of safety leadership, helping to speed the pace of improvement.