In case hospitals weren’t devoting enough attention to preventing central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), The Joint Commission has released a new toolkit to equip hospital...

Anticoagulant drugs remain one of the top safety concerns for hospitals around the country, and government agencies and medication safety organizations continue to devote time and energy to make antic...

Data integrity failures with health IT, poor care coordination, and reporting errors associated with test results top list ...

In a research report released in May by The RAND Corporation, entitled Promoting Patient Safety Through Effective Health Information Technology Risk Management, researchers from RAND Health, ECRI Ins...

A new study reveals that specific patient safety indicators could be significantly altered in the transition to the new coding system...

Infection control concerns arise after hospitals struggle to dispose of Category A waste in the wake of CDC and DOT discrepancies ...

It was a moment that the healthcare community had been reluctantly anticipating for some time: Medicare payment cuts to hospitals with high healthcare-acquired condition (HAC) rates offers a stark o...

In the months following the carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae outbreak linked to duodenoscopes, medical device manufacturer Olympus has repeatedly come under fire for its response to the outbr...

As the rest of the nation shifts its focus toward antibiotic stewardship, California leads the charge with an updated law ...

The nonprofit news organization ProPublica has never been one to shy away from controversy, particularly when it comes to healthcare quality. In the past, it has published databases in which patient...