Quality & Errors

A new study finds that the after-effects of adverse events can contribute to physician burnout.Read More »

A partnership between Blue Cross Blue Shield and the University of Michigan Health System aims to reduce anesthesiology-...Read More »

A partnership between an Indiana hospital and the Walgreens pharmacy chain eventually led to a program that has reduced unplanned hospital...Read More »

A new study found that implementing a checklist-based quality improvement program did not improve surgical outcomes in a group of Michigan...Read More »

The Joint Commission now requires organizations to collect data for six mandatory inpatient measures to meeting performance measure requirements...Read More »

Safety champions at Henry Ford Health System have helped transform the way staff members prevent patient harmRead More »

A Cincinnati hospital formed a task force and substantially reduced the number of false alarms from medical devices.Read More »

U.S. hospitals are making headway in preventing adverse events, with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimating that 1.3 million...Read More »

A new Johns Hopkins study raises additional questions about the correlation ­between what patients think they know about their...Read More »

Hospitals in California reported more than 6,200 adverse events in the last four fiscal years.Read More »