What does it take to transform an entire health system into a national leader in patient safety? Hartford HealthCare didn’t just ask the question — they answered it.

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America published “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” — an investigation into the prevalence of medical errors ...

Emotional safety should be assessed as a core component of patient safety, researchers at New York City-based NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing wrote in a Dec. 29 article published in Advances in ...

Patient safety challenges are exacerbated by healthcare workforce challenges. However, a workplace culture focused on measuring what goes wrong and making changes to address root causes – powered by ...

Despite improvement efforts over the past 30 years, patient safety and preventable harm incidents remain significant challenges in the healthcare industry. According to a 2023 study in the New England ...

One cyberattack can mean the difference between life and death. Every week, another headline exposes the terrifying reality that, in today’s digitally driven healthcare environment, cybersecurity ...

After finding flaws with a federal patient safety metric, researchers at Los Angeles-based UCLA Health are calling for revisions. In a study published Oct. 12 in the Journal of NeuroInterventional ...

Charles Denham, MD, of the Texas Medical Institute of Technology, reflects on what healthcare providers can do to intensify efforts toward increasing patient safety. In an article published in Journal ...

A chain of command is a formal, structured communication technique used to resolve patient safety issues. Through this process, care team members can escalate a concern through leadership levels until ...

Calling us nurse advocates is not just semantics; it is accountability. Advocating for nurses is inseparable from advocating ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Following the cyberattack, the American Hospital ...

The Oregon Nurses Association is doubling down on their call for Legacy Health to sign an agreement ensuring patient safety ...