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Medical Mistakes That Affect Multiple Patients Should Be Disclosed

Healthcare organizations should disclose medical mistakes that affect multiple patients, such as with improperly sterilized instruments or equipment malfunctions, even if patients were not harmed by the event, according to an AHRQ-funded research paper published in the ...More
September 7, 2010
Posted in News
National Quality Colloquium Offers Patient Safety Training

The Ninth National Quality Colloquium is a hybrid conference and Internet event on patient safety, healthcare quality enhancement and medical errors reduction for healthcare executives, clinicians and patient-care staff. ...More
July 19, 2010
Posted in News
OR Nurses Ask for Time Out to Reduce Surgical Errors

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) is drawing on its ability to influence patient safety practices in the OR with the national launch of a “Time Out Commitment” campaign. The new year-round campaign begins on National Time Out Day, June ...More
June 11, 2010
Posted in News
Needlesticks Among Errors Caused by Long Nursing Shifts

A common practice of successive 12-hour shifts for U.S. hospital nurses leaves many with serious sleep deprivation, higher risk of health problems, and more odds of making patient errors, according to a University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) study presented today at the ...More
June 8, 2010
Posted in News
Reform Law Poised to Make Healthcare Safer, Consumers Union Says

While most of the attention surrounding the landmark healthcare reform measure just signed into law has focused on how it expands access to affordable insurance coverage, it also enacts important initiatives that will improve patient safety, according to Consumers Union, ...More
April 2, 2010
Posted in News
Patient Safety Incidents at U.S. Hospitals Show No Decline, Cost $9 Billion

Nearly 1 million patient-safety incidents occurred among Medicare patients over the years 2006, 2007, 2008, a figure virtually unchanged since last year’s annual study of patient safety by HealthGrades, a leading independent healthcare ratings organization. In ...More
March 31, 2010
Posted in News
Quality in Healthcare... We Have All Heard It

As costs increase and reimbursements decrease there are ways to reduce costs, improve efficiencies and improve the quality of care to meet regulatory requirements. The landmark report from the Institute of Medicine, “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health ...More
February 22, 2010
Posted in Articles
CDC to Monitor Reactions and Errors Associated with Blood Transfusions

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched the first national surveillance system to monitor adverse events in patients who receive blood transfusions. The CDC is encouraging healthcare facilities across the country to enroll in this new surveillance ...More
February 18, 2010
Posted in News
Making a Better Medical Safety Checklist

In the wake of Johns Hopkins’ success in virtually eliminating intensive-care unit bloodstream infections via a simple five-step checklist, the safety scientist who developed and popularized the tool warns medical colleagues that they are no panacea.“Checklists ...More
February 15, 2010
Posted in News
Preventing Medical Errors: Avoid Blame Game, but Punish Habitual Offenders

Patient safety experts at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere are taking their prescription for avoiding medical errors in hospital care one step beyond already successful “no fault, no blame” approaches, calling now for penalties for doctors and nurses who fail to ...More
October 1, 2009
Posted in News, Hand Hygiene

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