BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--I-PASS Patient Safety Institute, a clinical leader in patient safety, is celebrating their five-year milestone and 100 million handoffs. Founded in 2016, I-PASS Institute was ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Recognizing that patient safety is a public health issue in need of fresh, robust approaches and constant focus for health care systems today, the Institute for Healthcare ...

One sure way to reduce risky patient handoffs in a hospital, where the potential exists for miscommunication and medical errors, is to increase the length of shifts that physicians and nurses work.

The University of North Texas' Health Science Center plans to launch its new Institute for Patient Safety today with the goal of reducing medical errors through education, research and quality ...

Leading physician, hospital, and consumer advocates announced at a December 11 news conference in Washington, DC the launch of a new initiative formed to improve patient safety and health care quality ...

The American College of Healthcare Executives and the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute are collaborating to create a “playbook” to support leaders in their efforts to build ...

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Despite progress on patient safety since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, To Err Is Human, significant problems remain. Human factors and systems engineering (HF/SE) has ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...