Research shows that a tired workforce leads to poor patient care, although many facilities have yet to embrace the importance of this issue....

Report offers comprehensive look at national and state infection rates, highlighting challenges that still face hospitals...

A new study found that physicians are overprescribing antibiotics, which researchers say are ineffective in treating acute bronchitis....

Those in the patient safety field may not think about their fellow healthcare workers on a day-to-day basis, but perhaps it's time they did. Although the two worlds don't often mix, employee health ...

As hospitals across the country search for ways to reduce readmissions in the wake of reimbursement cuts from CMS for rehospitalizations within 30 days, one statewide initiative in Minnesota may hav...

Expectations of access to high-quality, safe, and affordable healthcare are growing, as are the regulatory requirements around quality and safety in healthcare. For example, The Joint Commission, th...

Improvements must be made in handoffs, the use of PCA pumps, and postoperative orders to provide better patient care, according to a presentation at the annual conference of the Association of periOpe...

A surgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, N.Y., is accused of slapping anesthetized patients on the buttocks and calling them names before surgery, according to a CMS report...

Anticoagulant drugs remain one of the top safety concerns for hospitals around the country, and government agencies and medication safety organizations continue to devote time and energy to make antic...

When the Institute of Medicine's report To Err Is Human was released in 1999, there was a clear shift in the patient safety world. Previously, clinicians absorbed the brunt of the blame when it came t...