New and improved data released by the CDC offers a more comprehensive and accurate depiction of the impact that healthcare-associated infection (HAI) has on patient care, both within each state and across the country.
There is a whole field of medicine related to keeping patients safe in hospitals, and many of these professionals' daily jobs involve making sure patients are helped, not harmed, while receiving hospital care.
In just about every hospital, there is at least one person devoted to keeping patients safe from medication errors every step of the way: storing and labeling look-alike/sound-alike drugs properly, ensuring nurses hand off patients with a chance to ask questions, teaching the...
A transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure replaces a patient's diseased aortic valve through a delivery device introduced in the groin. The procedure is often used for patients too sick or weak for traditional open-heart surgery. However, TAVR is fairly new and...
Editor's note: "Culture club" is a new Patient Safety Monitor Journal feature that focuses on how combining safety efforts creates a more effective overall culture of safety. This month, we take a look at how peer review can influence your culture of safety.
