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Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...
Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...
HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...
It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...
Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...
The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...
Marking its 60th anniversary last year, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, can count many accompli...
Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...
Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...
At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...
A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...
Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...
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.
Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...
Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...
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...
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...
Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...
Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...
Smart infusion pump technology improves patient safety by providing decision support for nursing ...
Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...
In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...
This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...
This study used written portfolios to capture reflective learning that trainees described about t...
The Minnesota Hospital Association's SAFE SKIN program provides hospital leaders with resources o...