Senior nursing students Erin Miller and Aja Wilson are building the future of healthcare with an idea born in their ...

This agency slash has alarmed experts who say that the move threatens decades of progress in patient safety and medical error prevention.

Barbara Collins, president and CEO of Toronto's Humber River Health, started her career as a nurse, joining in 1999. Under her leadership, the hospital has developed cutting-edge technical systems for ...

Objective: To review Public Law (PL) 109-41 the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA) and summarize key medication error research that ...

A crew member reported having a "major problem" before UMMC medical helicopter crashed in Madison County, report says.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is replacing animal testing with human-relevant methods, including artificial ...

Artificial Intelligence is helping UC Davis Health predict which patients may need immediate care and eventually keep them ...

East Liverpool City Hospital was recently identified as one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals according to an independent quality analysis provided by Premier Inc. To create the list, an objective, ...

A report published today by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention underscores the potential of the collaborative ...

Report and share patient safety information with Patient Safety Organizations ... A reengineered hospital discharge program to decrease rehospitalization: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med 2009 Feb 3 ...

Are funds available for the program? Any new initiative will cost money indirectly ... In addition, evidence of a broader commitment to patient safety is an essential component. If any of these ...

At least 10% of patient safety events stem from poor communication among healthcare workers, patients and caregivers, according to a meta-analysis published April 14 in Annals of Internal Medicine. ...