Patient Safety Awareness Week, an annual education and awareness campaign for healthcare safety sponsored by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), is this week, March 3-9, 2013. Join in activities this week at your own facility or online to recognize the advancements that have been...
It's time again for the annual Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW), an annual education and awareness campaign for healthcare safety led by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) that began in 2002.
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.
A small but growing number of hospitals in Maryland have joined together to track and share information about the availability of psychiatric beds at participating institutions. The online registry is aimed at speeding patients out of overcrowded emergency rooms and into facilities where...
The American Medical Association has developed five key responsibilities physicians should adopt when providing care for patients recently discharged from the hospital to improve safety and reduce hospital readmissions for patients returning home.
Mistakes happen. Many times when mistakes happen in hospitals, the hospital's system and process design has at least in part failed a frontline provider. How much of a human error is truly the fault of the hospital could probably be under debate well after the incident. However...
All day and all night, healthcare providers try to help people heal and feel better. They take care of sick patients, both the chronic and acutely ill. Much of the care-and the outcomes that follow-is routine for providers.
