Like many researchers who focus on patient safety, Kathleen Sutcliffe was drawn to the field for personal reasons. After a medical error contributed to the ...

New data show that hospitals’ and health systems’ relentless focus on safety and quality improvement is paying off for ...

Greenville, N.C.-based East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine officials are aiming to incorporate patient safety early in a medical student’s education to help them identify larger system ...

The Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden and the ...

If you had to describe a hospital’s mission, philosophy and guiding light with a single word, safety would sit at the top of ...

Madera (Calif.) Community Hospital was fined and reprimanded for numerous state and federal health and safety violations before its closure in December 2022. Between 2016 and 2022, the hospital was ...

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 ...

Patient safety likely remains the nation's third leading cause of death and addressing it needs to be a key national priority, a presidential panel said this week. The panel released a report ...

Jeff Surges is a board member and former CEO of RLDatix, a leading global provider of connected healthcare operations software and services. Unsafe care is a global public health issue. According to ...

Misidentifying patients can have tragic consequences. Numerous catastrophic cases and near misses have been collected by Patient ID Now, a coalition of health care organizations we are affiliated with ...

Share on Pinterest Healthgrades has announced the 2024 recipients of the Patient Safety Excellence and Outstanding Patient Experience Awards. Tom Werner/Getty Images Healthgrades has announced the ...

Oversight of Saint Francis Hospital will continue for another six months after inspections uncovered “serious violations of patient safety regulations and protocols at the hospital” this past summer, ...