According to the World Health Organization, as many as one in 10 patients are harmed while receiving hospital care - seven out of 100 hospitalized patients acquire health care-associated infections.

The training tool provides an opportunity for staff to draft assertive statements for 31 possible situations in which staff should speak up about a patient safety risk. The tool also includes 31 ...

Training vendors that come into a hospital environment is an important part of patient safety planning, according to a recent blog post from IntelliCentrics. 1. Reduce the spread of disease.

Indiana hospital CEO mandates cultural training for labor staff after a patient in labor was discharged prematurely at Franciscan Health Crown Point.

The NQF views safety as a fundamental and essential attribute of quality healthcare. Without safety there simply cannot be high quality. The NQF also considers improving patient safety as an ethical ...

New Orleans–On Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. in the Isidore Cohn Learning Center on the campus of Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, a surgical team ...

By implementing appropriate security measures, threat assessment protocols, and compliance-driven policies, healthcare ...

Although John Prescott, MD, chief academic officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), said that educating new doctors about patient safety has been a top priority for American ...

Hospitalized patients who are handed off by their original medical team to a new set of caregivers may ultimately face a higher risk of early death, new research warns. The finding does not apply to ...