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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...
The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...
As identified in its 2014 Culture of Safety survey, the hospital’s overall mean score for the sta...
A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...
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...
Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 79 bed, community hospital serving the residents of eas...
Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...
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...
Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...
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...
The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...
Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...
Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...
To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
The only acceptable number of avoidable patient harms is zero. At Ponca City (Okla.) Medical Cent...
Lexington Regional Health Center, a 25-bed facility in Lexington, Nebraska, used best practices a...
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...
Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...
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...
Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...
Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...
Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...
Three patient navigators are used to advocate on behalf of women with abnormal breast findings on...
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...
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...
At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...
Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable imp...
Board members have a critical role to play in setting the tone for meaningful quality improvement...
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...
The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...
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...
Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...
Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...
Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...
