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

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

The following studies and stories regarding patient safety, compiled from Becker’s Hospital Review and Becker’s ASC Review over the past month, starting with the most recent. 1. Tension and ...

The role of technology in prioritizing patient safety is becoming increasingly apparent. Research is emerging around the capability of machine learning (ML) to potentially reduce medical alert fatigue ...

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 ...

U.S. hospitals made gains to reduce healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) but saw patient experiences further deteriorate in the latest release of an independent watchdog’s twice-yearly safety report.

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 ...

People concerned about the safety of patients often compare health care to aviation. Why, they ask, can’t hospitals learn from medical errors the way airlines learn from plane crashes? That’s the ...

A coalition of clinicians, elected officials and community advocates is urging HCA Healthcare to increase staffing levels at Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital following a patient death that ...

An NHS trust has been shortlisted for a prestigious patient safety award, for their data-driven improvements in the length of stay of hospital patients. Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust are ...

An investigation published by The BMJ today reveals new details of requests to recall striking junior doctors from picket lines for patient safety reasons. Documents show that while most trusts in ...