Assessment of active shooter preparedness in US hospital systems.

Background: Active shooter events are horrific, unfortunate realities in American hospitals. Protecting patients and staff in an active shooter event is made more difficult in the cases of critically ill and otherwise immobile patients. Previous work has proposed theoretical mitigation strategies for active shooter events.

Locked Down After A School Shooting.

After a school shooting disrupts his family's life, a physician calls for action on gun control and gun violence.

BETTER PATIENT FLOW BY MANAGING CHANGE.

As health care demands more efficiency within hospitals, it's possible to adapt existing teams to respond to the challenge in a transformative way. Here's how physician leaders and administrators at one facility did it.