March 12-18, 2017, is Patient Safety Awareness Week, led by the National Patient Safety Foundatio...

March 13th, 2017
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March 12–18 is Patient Safety Awareness Week. HPOE.org offers guides, tools, case studies...

March 10th, 2017

U.S. health care leaders are continually working to improve care processes while advancing a medi...

March 2nd, 2017
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The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

September 16th, 2016
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As identified in its 2014 Culture of Safety survey, the hospital’s overall mean score for the sta...

September 16th, 2016
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A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...

September 16th, 2016
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A “Germ Crusher” challenge at Children’s Hospital Colorado brought together leadership, staff, pa...

July 11th, 2016
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Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...

March 16th, 2016
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Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 79 bed, community hospital serving the residents of eas...

March 14th, 2016
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Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

March 14th, 2016
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One patient safety tool can be used in all care and service areas, improving safety and quality f...

March 14th, 2016
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Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

February 29th, 2016
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Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

February 29th, 2016
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In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

October 6th, 2015
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The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...

September 14th, 2015
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The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

September 14th, 2015
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Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

June 18th, 2015
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The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

June 17th, 2015
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The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

June 17th, 2015
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Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...

June 16th, 2015
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