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

November 19th, 2012
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Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

November 8th, 2012
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HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...

October 31st, 2012
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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

October 25th, 2012
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Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

October 21st, 2012
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Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

September 20th, 2012
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The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

September 1st, 2012
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Marking its 60th anniversary last year, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, can count many accompli...

July 16th, 2012
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Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

July 1st, 2012
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Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...

June 1st, 2012
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At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

June 1st, 2012
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A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

June 1st, 2012
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Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...

March 12th, 2012
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The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.  The award...

March 12th, 2012
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The patient safety portal includes links to valuable tools and resources.

March 1st, 2012
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Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...

February 1st, 2012
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Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

February 1st, 2012
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The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

February 1st, 2012
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Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

February 1st, 2012
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The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

February 1st, 2012
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