Patient Safety

Data released in May by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shows improvements in patient safety have saved thousands of...Read More »

It's been six years since a group of infection prevention organizations, hospital associations, and regulators assembled to release the ...Read More »

A new report details some of the steps that California hospitals are taking to prevent the most common medical errors and adverse events, but...Read More »

Fifteen years after a major Institute of Medicine report, hospitals have made no progress on patient safety, experts told a Senate panel last week...Read More »

A New York Times report found that patient safety is severely lacking in U.S. military hospitals, with many patient deaths going...Read More »

System administrators say quality reporting using third-party measures "will raise the bar for all of us"Read More »

Updated scores from The Leapfrog Group shows a 6.3% overall improvement in scores, and highlights Maine as one of the top...Read More »

Data integrity failures with health IT, poor care coordination, and reporting errors associated with test results top list...Read More »

Updated scores from The Leapfrog Group shows a 6.3% overall improvement in scores, and highlights Maine as one of the top...Read More »

Some argue that the AHRQ survey doesn't paint the full pictureRead More »