A workplace violence prevention (WPV) program built primarily around physical incidents risks overlooking the behaviors that precede them. Verbal threats, harassment, and bullying have to be treated as indicators of potential escalation.
Accreditation and quality leaders continue to struggle to maintain consistent oversight without adding unnecessary administrative work, and key warning signs become apparent as survey preparation intensifies.
Failure to rescue occurs when healthcare providers fail to recognize or respond appropriately to a patient's clinical deterioration. It reflects a breakdown in detecting and treating complications before they become life-threatening.
Traditional quality metrics often emphasize adverse events, readmissions, complications, or mortality. While those measures remain important, experts say they may not fully capture whether care improves patients' lives.
Hospital patient safety leaders' everyday reactions to employee concerns can determine whether potential safety risks are identified or allowed to escalate.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to reduce diagnostic errors and the complications from missed, delayed, or bad diagnoses. However, industry experts are raising concerns about its impact on patient safety.
What does highly infectious disease preparedness actually look like? Much of it revolves around something laboratory safety professionals already understand well—performing a thorough risk assessment.
CMS requires hospital radiologic services to meet professionally approved standards, but there is a significant gap between those broad expectations and MRI-specific accreditation requirements.
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has approved Tentative Interim Amendment 1869 to NFPA 101, Life Safety Code®, officially allowing weapons detection systems to be incorporated within means of egress under specified conditions.
