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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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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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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To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

March 26th, 2015
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The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

March 22nd, 2015
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The only acceptable number of avoidable patient harms is zero. At Ponca City (Okla.) Medical Cent...

March 9th, 2015

Lexington Regional Health Center, a 25-bed facility in Lexington, Nebraska, used best practices a...

February 5th, 2015
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Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

February 5th, 2015
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