Chapter 14: As Physician in Chief: Addressing Needs in Pharmacy, Nursing, and Quality and Safety
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Dr. Burke explains the major clinical needs of MD Anderson in 2007.
He talks about pharmaceutical needs. He next explains how he built his support team by seeking out people.
He describes the Quality and Safety program focused on patient safety, explaining the related Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Program first developed for industry, duly adapted for MD Anderson and other health care institutions. He talks about the influence of this Quality and Safety program. P
Dr. Burke explains how changes innovated by the Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Programmed were first received when introduced. He notes resistance and that the Program encouraged individuals to innovate their own improvements to process and gave prizes for the best solutions to process problems. He gives examples of innovations.
Identifier
BurkeTW_02_20140318_C14
Publication Date
3-18-2014
City
Houston, Texas
Interview Session
Topics Covered
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Building the Institution; The Administrator; Growth and/or Change; MD Anderson History; MD Anderson Snapshot; The History of Health Care, Patient Care; Research, Care, and Education; Leadership; Discovery and Success; This is MD Anderson; Understanding the Institution
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Burke, Thomas W. MD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Chapter 14: As Physician in Chief: Addressing Needs in Pharmacy, Nursing, and Quality and Safety" (2014). Interview Chapters. 930.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/930
Conditions Governing Access
Open
