It's time again for the annual Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW), an annual education and awareness campaign for healthcare safety led by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) that began in...

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In 2010, staff at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., started to become interested in new UV light technology as a possibility to help reduce infections. Although the hospital had lower t...

Test staff knowledge on The Joint Commission's emergency management standards with the following questions. ...

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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....

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A new report released Feb. 19 recognizes Dayton; Ohio, Phoenix; Cincinnati; and Milwaukee, among others, as the nation’s top hospitals and cities for hospital care based on in-hospital mortali...

Motivated by improved efficiencies and monetary incentives, healthcare is migrating to electronic health records. While this solves the issue of physicians' sloppy handwriting on paper, and creates ...