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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...
March 12–18 is Patient Safety Awareness Week. HPOE.org offers guides, tools, case studies...
U.S. health care leaders are continually working to improve care processes while advancing a medi...
A “Germ Crusher” challenge at Children’s Hospital Colorado brought together leadership, staff, pa...
Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...
One patient safety tool can be used in all care and service areas, improving safety and quality f...
Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...
In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...
The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...
Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...
Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...
UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...
Identifying solutions to reduce hospital-acquired conditions. Working to spread this knowledge to...
There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...
The National Patient Safety Foundation leads Patient Safety Awareness Week in early March to prom...
Goal-Reduce and prevent medical errors by adopting best practices and procedures. The Patient Sa...
The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...
This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...
The aviation industry has successfully used checklists to ensure safe air travel for passengers a...
Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...
The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...
HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...
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...
At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...
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...
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...
In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...
The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...
The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.
March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...
At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago, Nancy Donaldson, R.N., dir...
