A new report details some of the steps that California hospitals are taking to prevent the most common medical errors and adverse events, but many say there is still work to be done throughout the s...

Data released in May by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shows improvements in patient safety have saved thousands of lives and billions in healthcare costs....

It's been six years since a group of infection prevention organizations, hospital associations, and regulators assembled to release the Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infec...

Fifteen years after a major Institute of Medicine report, hospitals have made no progress on patient safety, experts told a Senate panel last week....

A New York Times report found that patient safety is severely lacking in U.S. military hospitals, with many patient deaths going unreported....

Data integrity failures with health IT, poor care coordination, and reporting errors associated with test results top list ...

System administrators say quality reporting using third-party measures "will raise the bar for all of us"...

Updated scores from The Leapfrog Group shows a 6.3% overall improvement in scores, and highlights Maine as one of the top states for patient care...

Updated scores from The Leapfrog Group shows a 6.3% overall improvement in scores, and highlights Maine as one of the top states for patient care...

Some argue that the AHRQ survey doesn't paint the full picture...