Editor's note: Culture Club is a new Patient Safety Monitor ­Journal feature that focuses on how combining safety efforts creates a more effective overall culture of safety....

Certain information should be available when medication errors are being prescribed. Age is one of the elements. Name at least four more elements that should be available. Click here to view the a...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is attempting to develop better methods of measuring and reporting data on catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and central line-a...

Together with the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association, The Joint Commission has developed a new certification program for facilities with acute stroke ready certification. ...

The Joint Commission plans to launch a new optional advanced certification program for organizations that provide total hip and knee replacement....

The 2014 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities report, released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in April, found that access to and quality of healthcare have improved over th...

The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) has awarded a $100,000 grant for a patient safety research project that will examine the mechanisms underlying patient falls in hospitals. The group of re...

If you walk onto the medical-surgical units in Boston Medical Center (BMC), you may notice something strange: silence....

Researchers find that infection control policies in the ICU vary widely and clinician adherence rates are often low....

Eight California hospitals were fined a total of $775,000 by the state for preventable medical errors that put 10 patients in immediate jeopardy of serious injury or death....