Drawing information from patients can help boost understanding of why diagnostic errors happen and reduce the risk of future errors, according to new research. Diagnostic errors are a serious patient ...

It is an understatement to say 2018 was an eventful year. If you need to review anything, we’ve made this index of PSMJ articles to help you quickly find what you need. We look forward to keepin...

The ECRI Institute published its annual list of the top 10 health technology hazards facing healthcare in 2019. Longtime readers will recognize several hazards from ECRI’s 2018 and 2017 lists, s...

What do you see outside your window? If you’re in many parts of the U.S., you might see a blanket of white. And even if the snow hasn’t started falling yet, it’s a safe bet that it w...

On October 10, Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida, forcing at least two hospitals to evacuate all of their patients after their buildings sustained heavy damage. On the same day, The Joint Com...

With a span of providers reaching almost half the country, the Dignity Health system kicked off its Human Trafficking Response (HTR) Program in 2014 with the intent of identifying and helping traffick...

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Communication can be one of the hardest skills for anyone to master. Yet in healthcare, miscommunication can pose grave challenges to patient safety and care quality. A 2016 malpractice study conducte...

To boost patient safety and physician efficiency, Seattle Children's Hospital adopted overlapping emergency room shifts for physicians and achieved a dramatic reduction in patient handoffs, recent res...

Suicide prevention and ligature risk was a major topic at The Joint Commission (TJC)’s 2019 Executive Briefings this September. Many attendees had questions on risk assessments, physical environ...