Patient Safety

Hospital workplace violence prevention often comes with good intentions, but incomplete execution. Many hospitals today have crisis response plans...Read More »

Robert “Navy Bob” Roncska, DBA, a retired Navy captain and co-author of the book High Reliability Healthcare, believes...Read More »

Burnout, alert fatigue, and inefficient workflows can quietly undermine patient safety long before an adverse event occurs.Read More »

Hospitals continue to refine their drug diversion strategies, but even the best technology is only as strong as the culture surrounding it.Read More »

Healthcare-acquired infections (HAI) remain a major threat to patient safety despite the best efforts of healthcare workers everywhere. Read More »

The latest available records from the CDC show that drug overdose deaths among young Americans have dropped for the third year in a row. Read More »

Finding and eliminating infection control (IC) violations is one of the most crucial parts of healthcare, regardless of what organization or...Read More »

Kurt Patton, MS, RPh, founder and president emeritus of Patton Healthcare Consulting, knows intimately about some of the...Read More »

Despite being a high-income country, the United States has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, according to the U.S....Read More »

The issue is not collecting more safety data; it’s making better use of the data you’ve already collected. Read More »