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Right dose, right drug: WHO challenges hospitals to cut med errors in half

December 19, 2025

Quality & Errors

At the end of March, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced its third global safety initiative, the Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety, which calls on facilities to cut the ra...

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You’ve got harm:

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

A look at the Automated All Cause Harm trigger system The prevention of avoidable harms has been a goal of healthcare since day one, but it was given fresh life in 2010 when the Office of Inspector...

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Keeping fungi at bay

December 19, 2025

Infection Control, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

In March, The Washington Post ran an alarming story about a new strain of Candida auris (C. auris) fungus in U.S. hospitals. At presstime, there were more than 50 C. auris cases in the U.S., mostly cl...

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Q&A: IHI and NPSF merge to push patient safety initiatives

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety

Editor’s note: In March, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) announced that they would merge starting May 1. The two organizations have bee...

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Innovation in pursuit of high-reliability culture

December 19, 2025

Quality & Errors

The Institute of Medicine sent waves racing across the surface of American healthcare when it published To Err Is Human in 1999. The unsettling report suggested medical errors were killing at least 44...

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ECRI: The rules on copying and pasting medical information

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

In 2016, the ECRI Institute’s Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety released its Health IT Safe Practices: Toolkit for the Safe Use of Copy and Paste. The toolkit outlines the risks and benefits o...

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Bringing universal suicide screening to your hospital

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Behavioral & Mental Health

With suicide rates high and getting higher, hospitals and clinics need to revamp how they work with suicidal patients. The first step is developing a system to identify struggling patients so they can...

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Q&A: How to respond to the WHO's top 12 superbugs list

December 19, 2025

Infection Control, Patient Safety

Editor’s note: In February, The World Health Organization (WHO) published its first list of a dozen families of antibiotic-resistant “priority pathogens” that pose the greatest threat to humanity. ...

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Study: Postoperative complications are a major concern for hospitals

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

A recent study sheds new light on the prevalence of postoperative complications. In November 2016, a study published in the British Journal of Anesthesia (BJA) found that each year there are 50 mil...

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ISMP’s targeted medication safety best practices for 2017

December 19, 2025

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Editor’s note: The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) released its 2016–2017 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals guide in December 2015. The first edition of the best p...

Right dose, right drug: WHO challenges hospitals to cut med errors in half

You’ve got harm:

Keeping fungi at bay

Q&A: IHI and NPSF merge to push patient safety initiatives

Innovation in pursuit of high-reliability culture

ECRI: The rules on copying and pasting medical information

Bringing universal suicide screening to your hospital

Q&A: How to respond to the WHO's top 12 superbugs list

Study: Postoperative complications are a major concern for hospitals

ISMP’s targeted medication safety best practices for 2017

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