Patient safety is one of the greatest imperatives in healthcare today; however, there are many obstacles that must be overcome to make the healthcare system truly safe. This article describes one ...

Patient safety sets the foundation for a safe, equitable, trustworthy care experience – regardless of whether you’re operating in a virtual health system, or a physical one. And yet, despite increased ...

In early 2021, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and NORC at the University of Chicago showed that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use ...

BENTON, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HD Nursing, the leading patient safety solution that combines predictive analytics with individualized fall and pressure injury prevention, announces its collaborative ...

Condition Help, a patient safety program launched more than two years ago at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, has significantly improved communication between caregivers and patients and improved ...

Patients and caregivers play a central role in health care safety in the hospital, ambulatory care setting, and community. Despite this, interventions to promote patient engagement in safety are still ...

It’s still unclear whether formal patient safety programs improve healthcare outcomes, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service. The report, Medical Malpractice: The Role of ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine, the society representing more than 31,000 hospitalists and the hospital medicine specialty, has implemented several successful patient safety initiatives that have ...

Physicians with the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine in Scranton, Pa., co-chaired a task force that has created a patient safety curriculum, according to PAHomePage.com. Geisinger ...

As more hospitals cut their budgets, it's important for staff members who work in quality and patient safety to understand what points to illustrate when making a case for joining a new initiative, ...

Ofelia O’Donnell is very humble and shy, but recently she obtained a vital credential award by Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety (CBPPS) that left her speechless. O’Donnell has ...