Despite decades of patient safety initiatives, preventable harm remains prevalent in health care. This article posits that a ...

BENTON, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HD Nursing, the leading patient safety solution that combines predictive analytics with individualized fall and pressure injury prevention, announces its collaborative ...

Patient safety sets the foundation for a safe, equitable, trustworthy care experience – regardless of whether you’re operating in a virtual health system, or a physical one. And yet, despite increased ...

Multi-disciplinary patient blood management (PBM) programs — which go beyond blood bank projects to manage and preserve a patient’s own blood — can improve health outcomes, reduce the cost of care and ...

Despite the program's success a number of challenges remain. The first challenge is the time investment required. Improving safety unquestionably requires dedicated time and resources. The goal is to ...

A key premise behind the development of the Pediatric Safety Program was that front-line staff and clinical leaders could indeed enhance patient safety. They would need both the knowledge and the ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine, the society representing more than 31,000 hospitalists and the hospital medicine specialty, has implemented several successful patient safety initiatives that have ...

Patient safety sets the foundation for a safe, equitable, trustworthy care experience — regardless of whether you’re operating in a virtual health system or a physical one. And yet, despite increased ...

Health professionals in Hartford, Conn., have created a program for improving patient safety in nursing homes through reduction of human error, according to a report from The Courant. The program is ...

Does your compliance program incorporate quality and patient safety issues? Or, are you treating the two areas as separate and distinct departments? The OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance ...

To construct a truly outstanding patient-safety and quality control program, hospitals must first have a strong quality foundation. Many hospitals attempt to launch sophisticated initiatives and find ...