Mayo Clinic Key In To Quality

One Less Diagnostic Error—Reducing Specimen Errors

Episode Summary

Guests: Kayla Simiele, RN and Amanda Johnshoy, MSN, RN Host: Timothy Morgenthaler, M.D. @DrTimMorg Specimens provide a crucial chain of evidence in the practice of medicine. Unfortunately, labeling errors and lost specimens do occur, unleashing a host of downstream challenges including delayed or incorrect treatment. In the podcast, guests from the Department of Nursing describe their efforts to reduce specimen errors in a Mayo Clinic surgical practice. They discuss how their efforts, using DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) methodology and other quality improvement techniques, significantly reduced specimen errors and discuss key learnings being shared with other surgical practices at Mayo Clinic. Find out more about Mayo Clinic’s Quality program at https://www.mayoclinic.org/about-mayo-clinic/quality/. Connect with us on Twitter or Facebook using #mayokeyintoquality or at https://www.facebook.com/MayoClinic https://twitter.com/MayoClinic  

Episode Notes

Guests: Kayla Simiele, RN and Amanda Johnshoy, MSN, RN

Host: Timothy Morgenthaler, M.D. @DrTimMorg

Specimens provide a crucial chain of evidence in the practice of medicine. Unfortunately, labeling errors and lost specimens do occur, unleashing a host of downstream challenges including delayed or incorrect treatment.

In the podcast, guests from the Department of Nursing describe their efforts to reduce specimen errors in a Mayo Clinic surgical practice. They discuss how their efforts, using DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) methodology and other quality improvement techniques, significantly reduced specimen errors and discuss key learnings being shared with other surgical practices at Mayo Clinic.

Find out more about Mayo Clinic’s Quality program at https://www.mayoclinic.org/about-mayo-clinic/quality/.

Connect with us on Twitter or Facebook using #mayokeyintoquality or at

https://www.facebook.com/MayoClinic

https://twitter.com/MayoClinic