Despite progress on patient safety since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, To Err Is Human, significant problems remain. Human factors and systems engineering (HF/SE) has ...

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 ...

Misidentifying patients can have tragic consequences. Numerous catastrophic cases and near misses have been collected by Patient ID Now, a coalition of health care organizations we are affiliated with ...

Jeff Surges is a board member and former CEO of RLDatix, a leading global provider of connected healthcare operations software and services. Unsafe care is a global public health issue. According to ...

NICE evaluates new health technologies for NHS use, considering clinical effectiveness and value for money. We also produce useful and usable guidance, helping health and care practitioners deliver ...

Adverse events in patients who have undergone surgery constitute a large proportion of iatrogenic illnesses. Most surgical safety interventions have focused on the operating room. Since more than half ...

Reports of serious patient safety events among healthcare facilities in 2022 rose 19% from 2021 with falls, the most common such event, rising nearly 27%, according to data reported to The Joint ...

Share on Pinterest Healthgrades’ Patient Safety Excellence Awards recognize hospitals in the top 10% in the nation for patient safety. andresr/Getty Images Healthgrades recently announced the ...

Minnesota Hospital Association and the Minnesota Department of Health have developed and provide a free, downloadable time-out script example. The one-page document provides a five-step approach to ...