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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
March 12-18, 2017, is Patient Safety Awareness Week, led by the National Patient Safety Foundatio...
A “Germ Crusher” challenge at Children’s Hospital Colorado brought together leadership, staff, pa...
In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...
Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...
The only acceptable number of avoidable patient harms is zero. At Ponca City (Okla.) Medical Cent...
Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...
The National Patient Safety Foundation leads Patient Safety Awareness Week in early March to prom...
The United States Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration office released...
Goal-Reduce and prevent medical errors by adopting best practices and procedures. The Patient Sa...
Board members have a critical role to play in setting the tone for meaningful quality improvement...
Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...
Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...
Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...
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...
A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...
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.
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 ...
In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...
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...
The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...
The ProblemMedication errors in the health care delivery system are the most common type of error...
