With the Institute of Medicine’s report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services applied safety lessons gleaned from the aviation industry’s efforts ...

Clinicians’ increased burdens are making it harder for valid concerns voiced by patients, their families and their caretakers to be acknowledged, raising the risk of missed diagnoses and exacerbated ...

A study released by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory shows that various instances of “disruptive behavior” caused patient safety to decrease, according to a news release by PPSA. From May 2007 ...

Emotional safety should be assessed as a core component of patient safety, researchers at New York City-based NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing wrote in a Dec. 29 article published in Advances in ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs uses Patient Record Flags to alert staff when veterans may face or pose heightened safety ...

Despite AI's potential, human hospital staff efforts are still key in significantly improving patient safety. Artificial intelligence applications may dominate health care discourse, but the low-tech ...

Texas A&M Architecture For Health is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, ...

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 ...

BOSTON & SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2025 IHI Patient Safety Congress kicked off today, bringing together health care professionals, patient safety advocates, and learners from around the world in ...

Last year, I faced a harrowing experience that would change my perspective on healthcare forever. What began as an emergency surgery to combat a flesh-eating bacteria quickly turned into a nightmare.

The Biden administration met World Patient Safety Day with a blitz of new programs, panel discussions and commitments from government agencies as well as healthcare industry organizations all focused ...