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...

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....

A small but growing number of hospitals in Maryland have joined together to track and share information about the availability of psychiatric beds at participating institutions. The online registry ...

The American Medical Association has developed five key responsibilities physicians should adopt when providing care for patients recently discharged from the hospital to improve safety and reduce h...

All day and all night, healthcare providers try to help people heal and feel better. They take care of sick patients, both the chronic and acutely ill. Much of the care-and the outcomes that follow-is...

Mistakes happen. Many times when mistakes happen in hospitals, the hospital's system and process design has at least in part failed a frontline provider. How much of a human error is truly the fault o...

Test staff knowledge on The Joint Commission's medication management standards with the following questions. ­Answers are on p. 12....

Use this record of care quiz to test staff members' knowledge of Joint Commission standards. Answers are on p. 10....

PSMJ 2012 index...

On October 24, The Joint Commission released the new National Patient Safety Goals for 2013. The list includes no new goals; however, hospitals are still struggling over many goals, and NPSG.07.06.01-...