Joint Commission now surveying for compliance
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ban on...Read More »
People can grow used to anything, even alarms. Such is the danger of alarm fatigue; when excessive and nuisance alerts cause healthcare staff to...Read More »
Editor’s note: The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) released its 2016–2017 Targeted Medication...Read More »
A recent study sheds new light on the prevalence of postoperative complications.
In November 2016, a study published in the British...Read More »
Editor’s note: In February, The World Health Organization (WHO) published its first list of a dozen families of antibiotic-...Read More »
With suicide rates high and getting higher, hospitals and clinics need to revamp how they work with suicidal patients. The first step is...Read More »
In 2016, the ECRI Institute’s Partnership for ...Read More »
Editor’s note: In March, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF)...Read More »
In March, ...Read More »
The prevention of avoidable harms has been a...Read More »
