The Joint Commission recognized more than 1,200 hospitals in its Top Performers on Key Quality Measures program, an 11% increase from the previous year....

The full chapter of The Joint Commission’s 2015 National Patient Safety Goals has been released on the accreditor’s website....

When should staff and physicians be educated about healthcare-associated infections including surgical site infections, central line-associated bloodstream infections, multidrug-resistant organisms, a...

A study found that using a team-based approach can help hospitals reduce alarm fatigue....

Implementing a handoff improvement program has been found to reduce medical errors in nine hospitals, according to a new study....

Patient/family education on the importance of medication management is a critical component of medication reconciliation. What other helpful information should be provided to the patient and family at...

The Joint Commission revised the language to its pain management standard to encourage healthcare organizations to manage pain by using pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic strategies. ...

The Leapfrog Group last week released the fall 2014 update to its Hospital Safety Scores, which find that hospital outcome performance is still lacking....

When the Partnership for Patients (PfP) program was announced in April 2011, it was billed by CMS Administrator Don Berwick as "the largest national effort on patient safety that we've ever see...

We have seen some enormous numbers arising in the current Ebola outbreak in Africa, with information, both factual and fear-inspired, bubbling up as patients are brought stateside for care. So what ...