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• PBS NewsHour, November 26, 2009: How Will Healthcare Overhaul Affect Patients?
  One of the major goals of the healthcare overhaul is to lower cost and improve quality.
• The Boston Globe, November 22, 2009: Hospitals Make Headway on Patient Infections
  Massachusetts’ largest hospitals say they have significantly cut the number of patients who acquire painful, costly, and sometimes deadly infections in their operating suites and intensive care units.
• Kasier Health News, November 12, 2009: Checking in With Donald Berwick
  KHN's Phil Galewitz talks to Donald Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., former President and CEO of IHI, and clinical professor of pediatrics and health care policy at the Harvard Medical School.
• WCVB-TV Boston, October 21, 2009: Can 2 Minutes and a Sheet of Paper Save Your Life?
  Medical students pushing use of patient safety checklist.
• USA Today, September 30, 2009: No Southern Comfort in Obesity
  For many blacks in the South, healthy living is at odds with the culture.
• PRI's The World, September 10, 2009: Foreign Lessons in Hospital Efficiency
  Containing health-care costs is a key goal of reform efforts.
• The New York Times, August 13, 2009: 10 Steps to Better Health Care
  Americans have recognized that our health system is bankrupting us and that we have dealt with this by letting the system price more and more people out of health care
• Minnesota Public Radio, August 04, 2009: Putting the Patient First
  Patient-centered care sounds like a given, but it's not always so. An interview with Pauline Chen, MD and Don Berwick, MD.
• Health Affairs Blog, July 28, 2009: Low-Cost, High-Quality Health Care in America
  As President Barack Obama and his allies press their case for health care reform, the president exhorts that his vision will slow the growth of medical expenditures, expand coverage to millions, and improve the quality of care.
• The New York Times, July 26, 2009: Forget Who Pays Medical Bills, It's Who Sets the Cost
  Every fight over health care reform is different, and every fight over health care reform is the same.
• Newsweek, July 24, 2009: The Long Fight
  John Dingell's 50-year struggle to pass universal-health-care legislation.
• The Boston Channel, July 22, 2009: End-of-Life Care Under Microscope
  As health care costs spiral out of control, the quality of end-of-life care, and the difficult private decisions around it, have converged very publicly with its enormous financial expense.
• The Boston Channel, July 22, 2009: End-of-Life Care Puts Tremendous Burden on Medicare
  Modern medicine has saved countless lives -- with miracle cures and cutting- edge surgeries. But the single biggest cost-saver for our health care system could be figuring out when less is more.
• ABC News, June 24, 2009: Focus on Healthcare Reform
  Dr. Don Berwick on the country's health care reform debate.
• The New York Times, June 23, 2009: America's Health Care Priorities II
  Economix asked health care experts and stakeholders to answer this question: What should the priorities for health care reform be?
• The New York Times, June 04, 2009: Letting The Patient Call The Shots
  Don Berwick talks more about his article "What 'Patient-Centered' Should Mean."
• NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, April 09, 2009: Obama Touts Military Digital Health Record Plan As Model
  A new electronic medical records system for military personnel is meant to be a model for improving health care nationwide. Analysts discuss the program's cost and efficiency.
• The New York Times, April 02, 2009: Study Finds Many on Medicare Return to Hospital
  The nation spends billions of dollars a year on patients’ return visits to the hospital — many of which are readmissions that could be prevented with better follow-up care.
• Nurse.come, March 23, 2009: Cutting Errors
  Most checklists in use today tend to be silent paper exercises in which a lone nurse checks off boxes. In contrast, the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is a tool of communication and functions as a list of team talking points.
• The Boston Globe, January 28, 2009: Lifesaving List
  Editorial in praise of simple safety checklists, which significantly lower complications in the operating room.
• USA Today, January 15, 2009: Surgeons Could Save Lives By Using Checklist
  Eight hospitals reduced the number of deaths from surgery by more than 40% by using a checklist that helps doctors and nurses avoid errors.
• The Boston Globe, January 15, 2009: Safety List Cuts Surgery Deaths
  Deaths and complications dropped by an astounding one-third when operating room doctors and nurses completed a simple safety checklist before, during, and after surgery, according to a study led by Harvard researchers.