After much anticipation from patient safety experts, on October 20, The Joint Commission released its new Patient Safety Systems chapter, which will be included in the 2015 Comprehensive Accreditation...

Responding to knowledge gap with emerging surgical tools, FUSE training program aims to improve device safety and reduce patient harm...

A new ECRI Institute report says hospital alarm errors top the list of healthcare technology hazards....

True or false: A postoperative patient who is receiving pain medication should be educated about his or her pain medication as well as other pain management techniques....

Experts testify that there are more than 1,000 preventable deaths each day and that patient safety is no better than it was 15 years ago...

An executive order from President Obama and a rash of new studies have thrust the importance of antimicrobial stewardship into the national spotlight...

With limited information available, the new chapter references leadership standards, but it's unclear how it will impact the survey process...

The Joint Commission recently released a new chapter to the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH) entitled Patient Safety Systems. The chapter is intended to encourage organizations ...

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...