To decrease the medical error rate, an independent group must have the authority to fully evaluate patient harm events.

Poor communications between health care workers contributed to 25% of hospital incidents that put patients' safety at risk, ...

At least 10% of patient safety events stem from poor communication among healthcare workers, patients and caregivers, according to a meta-analysis published April 14 in Annals of Internal Medicine. ...

HCA Florida Aventura Hospital has been recognized as a 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ recipient by Healthgrades, the ...

Patient safety is being put at risk by "doctor burnout" caused by GPs being under-funded and overworked, a leading medic has said. Dr Sigi Joseph said doctors have to "continually soak up" more ...

The daughter of an elderly patient in a Cork mental health unit has said she is fearful for her mother’s safety and was not surprised by a scathing report on it this week. Susie Keane’s ...

Play this puzzle to see how far the machines have to go. By Dylan Freedman and Cade Metz Produced by Juliana Castro Varón and Umi Syam In 2019, an A.I. researcher, François Chollet, designed a ...

Angel Pannell has been named vice president of quality, safety and patient experience at Ashtabula Regional Medical Center. “It is what we do, why we do it, and how we do it. We take evidence ...

Question: What’s the top barrier to patient access in your market? How are you addressing that? Michael Briseño, MD. North Texas Orthopedics & Spine Center (Grapevine): We have found that completing ...

In healthcare, the customer is the patient: the mum with a newborn, the tradie, the kaumātua, the grandmother. This Government has set out to refocus the health system on the patient while ...

The judge said Nathan Newby is a ‘modest and gentle man whose evidence was among the most remarkable this court has ever heard’ (Picture: Bruce Adams/Daily Mail) A hospital patient has been ...