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Presentations & Articles

We hope these informative resources help advance healthcare quality and safety improvement in your organization. This is just a small sample of the large body of work by Patrice Spath, partner in Brown-Spath & Associates.

Slides from Presentations by Patrice Spath

The Basics of Patient Safety

Don’t Abandon Accountability

Can Patient Partnerships Make Healthcare Safer?

Caring for the 2nd Victim of a Medical Mishap

Consumer-Centric Safety Improvement: Learning from Patients & Families

Patient Safety: Senior Leaders’ Roles and Responsibilities

Articles by Patrice Spath

Tap into the Power of Comparative Performance Data, For the Record (March 2006)

Taming the Measurement Monster, Frontiers of Health Services Administration (Spring 2007)

The Role of HIM Professionals in Quality Management, Perspectives in Health Information Management (Summer 2009)

FMEA: A Proactive Resident Safety Technique, Topics in Geriatric Medicine and Medical Direction (Dec. 2013)

Spath, P.L. & Minogue, W. The soil, not the seed: the real problem with root cause analysis [Perspective]. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online] (July 2008)

AHRQ Web M&M Case & Commentary: Failure to Report (March 2007)

Books by Patrice Spath available for purchase from other publishers

Introduction to Healthcare Quality Management,  3rd ed. (Health Administration Press, 2018)

Applying Quality Management in Healthcare: A Systems Approach, 5th ed. (Health Administration Press, 2021)

Error Reduction in Health Care, 2nd ed. (Jossey-Bass, 2011)

Leading Your Healthcare Organization to Excellence: A Guide to Using the Baldrige Criteria (Health Administration Press, 2004)

ACHE

Award Ceremony

At the ACHE Congress in Chicago, Patrice Spath is awarded the 2006 James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award for her book, Leading Your Health Care Organization to Excellence. This award is given annually to the author of a management or healthcare book judged outstanding by the American College of Healthcare Executive's Book of the Year Committee.
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