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 ...

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 ...

Patient safety is one of the greatest imperatives in healthcare today; however, there are many obstacles that must be overcome to make the healthcare system truly safe. This article describes one ...

In early 2021, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and NORC at the University of Chicago showed that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic ...

Patients and caregivers play a central role in health care safety in the hospital, ambulatory care setting, and community. Despite this, interventions to promote patient engagement in safety are still ...

Behavioral health care has been slow to take up robust efforts to improve patient safety. This lag is especially apparent in inpatient psychiatry, where there is risk for physical and psychological ...

In early 2021, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and NORC at the University of Chicago showed that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use ...

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 ...

Physicians with the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine in Scranton, Pa., co-chaired a task force that has created a patient safety curriculum, according to PAHomePage.com. Geisinger ...

As more hospitals cut their budgets, it's important for staff members who work in quality and patient safety to understand what points to illustrate when making a case for joining a new initiative, ...

The adversaries targeting critical infrastructure today are not always chasing a ransom. Sometimes, they are chasing chaos.

Ofelia O’Donnell is very humble and shy, but recently she obtained a vital credential award by Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety (CBPPS) that left her speechless. O’Donnell has ...