The patient safety movement has made the healthcare workplace safer for employees too, a risk analysis suggests. "We think the intense emphasis on patient safety has a direct implication on worker ...

A free roadmap for developing a perinatal patient safety program is available from the Minnesota Hospital Association. The roadmap was developed as part of the Minnesota Perinatal Safety Program, ...

In the aftermath of the transplant mismatch an exhaustive review of patient safety literature was completed; a re-evaluation of the organization's compliance with the IOM recommendations was carried ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine, the society representing more than 31,000 hospitalists and the hospital medicine specialty, has implemented several successful patient safety initiatives that have ...

An obstetrics patient safety program can improve safety climate and staff perceptions of safety, according to an article published in American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Researchers ...

BENTON, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HD Nursing, the leading patient safety solution that combines predictive analytics with individualized fall and pressure injury prevention, announces its collaborative ...

Does your compliance program incorporate quality and patient safety issues? Or, are you treating the two areas as separate and distinct departments? The OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance ...

Patient safety sets the foundation for a safe, equitable, trustworthy care experience – regardless of whether you’re operating in a virtual health system, or a physical one. And yet, despite increased ...

Patient safety sets the foundation for a safe, equitable, trustworthy care experience — regardless of whether you’re operating in a virtual health system or a physical one. And yet, despite increased ...

A key premise behind the development of the Pediatric Safety Program was that front-line staff and clinical leaders could indeed enhance patient safety. They would need both the knowledge and the ...