Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

Marking its 60th anniversary last year, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, can count many accompli...

Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...

The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...

This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...

The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...

The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.  The award...

The patient safety portal includes links to valuable tools and resources.

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...

Rome Memorial Hospital began this project as a prelude to developing a progressive mobility progr...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...

In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...

This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...

In 2006, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation declared a bold vision for patient safety...

In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...

In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

This project addresses the needs of patients at high risk for C. difficile on a complex medical u...

Smart infusion pump technology improves patient safety by providing decision support for nursing ...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

This study used written portfolios to capture reflective learning that trainees described about t...