Minnesota Hospital Association

These sessions are now being replicated in Minnesota, where leaders came together with the support of Harvard University, the National Patient Safety Foundation, and the Minnesota Hospital Association to create a threshold improvement in patient safety. The results of the session are summarized as follows... 

Minnesota Hospital and Healthcare Partnership. Suggested Language Communicating Outcomes to Patients, [http //www.mhhp.com/ptsafety/language.doc] St. Paul Minnesota Hospital Association, 2002. 

Language shapes culture, and a safety culture requires thoughtful and deliberate use of a new vocabulary. Leadership responsibility includes redefining how we talk about safety. Consider how the following terms and phrases, and the ideas they represent, frame safety differently and how terminology can be used deliberately to build a new vocabulary for leadership and management (Minnesota Hospital and Healthcare Partnership and Minnesota Medical Association, 2000) ... 

Minnesota Hospital and Healthcare Partnership and Minnesota Medical Association. Red ning the CultureJbr Patient Safety. Minneapohs-St. Paul Minnesota Hospital and Healthcare Partnership and Minnesota Medical Association, 2000. 

Schwartz estimated the association between daily PMio exposures and hospital admissions for pneumonia among the elderly in Birmingham, Alabama (54), Detroit, Michigan (38), and Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota (55) (see Fig. 6). These studies give a combined estimated increase of 1.4% (95% Cl 0.1-1.0%) in pneumonia admissions for each lO-pg/m increase in PMio. These associations do not imply that particulate air pollution is producing new cases of pneumonia,... 

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