> The problem is that everyone is too afraid to correct the doctors when they make obvious mistakes.
Why do you think that is the core of the issue? Sorry to be that guy, but massive citation needed.
Not only that, but it appears (based on the wiki article below) CRM procedures you are mentioning have already been widely adopted by the healthcare industry.
Sorry to disagree, but they are certainly not widely adopted, although there is a fair degree of buzzword compliance without meaningful implementation.
I'm an ER physician in the US, and have worked in 5 hospitals in the last six years during residency and afterwards. Some of them occasionally would have some kind of 'patient safety' didactic lecture, but none had the specific small group training between doctors, nurses and other staff that CRM requires. If a hospital were serious about such things, they would pay staff to attend such training, and measure the behaviors, and make a portion of pay dependent upon adhering to the principles: I have never heard of a hospital doing this.
I think there is good evidence that CRM works (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12546286) but the hospitals won't do it unless forced to by a regulator or accrediting organization such as jcaho, in my opinion. I'm curious to know whether the airlines took on the concept by choice, or we're forced to by the FAA...Of course, it's a lot harder to 'hide' a plane crash than a failure to correctly treat a sick patient. There's also some perverse incentives: if a hospital does the wrong thing, and makes someone sicker, that often means that the hospital can bill more for a higher level of care, for a longer period of time: you can always blame the underlying illness...
> Sorry to disagree, but they are certainly not widely adopted, although there is a fair degree of buzzword compliance without meaningful implementation.
That may be true, but OP implied that nurses being too afraid to correct doctors was the main cause of avoidable patient death, which is a massive stretch. Especially when the article itself is so prone to the obvious bias of life-threatening surgeries not taking place when doctors aren't working.
> I'm curious to know whether the airlines took on the concept by choice, or we're forced to by the FAA
Why do you think that is the core of the issue? Sorry to be that guy, but massive citation needed.
Not only that, but it appears (based on the wiki article below) CRM procedures you are mentioning have already been widely adopted by the healthcare industry.