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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Medication reconciliation: Prescriptions from multiple providers provide room for error

February 12, 2026

Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

The importance of medication reconciliation is obvious. When taken together, certain medicine combinations can cause harmful effects. Therefore, keeping an updated record of all the medicines a patien...

Medical Environment Update

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Improving patient access to their data

February 12, 2026

Cybersecurity & Technology, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

As the healthcare ecosystem in the U.S. grows more complex, there continues to be a focus on strengthening outcomes, controlling costs, and improving data. Improved quality of healthcare data helps ov...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Excerpt: Soaring to Success - The Path to Developing High-Reliability Clinical Teams

February 12, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety

CRM has two main parts. The first deals with teamwork and communication and covers the interpersonal and social aspects of the working environment. The second deals with human factors and situational ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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The opioid crisis continues: Have you bolstered your health system’s drug diversion defenses yet?

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Health Equity, Quality & Errors

After years of decline, 2020 and 2021 saw record rises in U.S. drug overdose deaths. In the 12-month period that ended in April 2021, more than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses, an increase of...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Mental shortcuts, fallacies, and patient harm: How we make healthcare decisions drives patient outcomes

February 12, 2026

Quality & Errors

Do you ever think about how you think, or come to conclusions, or make decisions? It’s a Philosophy 101 question, but in the healthcare context it means examining how we make assumptions, skip steps, ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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High turnover and low reliability: A self-destructive cycle

February 12, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

As the COVID-19 pandemic rolls into its third year, many healthcare workers have had enough. Long hours, crushing workloads, and cultural tensions about vaccines and the virus have accelerated the num...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Delayed care linked to increase in NJ excess deaths during pandemic, report says

February 12, 2026

Quality & Errors, Infection Control

Delayed or deferred care likely contributed to excess deaths in New Jersey during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, a recent report from the New Jersey Hospital Association’s Center for Heal...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, January 2022

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

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Healthcare Safety Leader

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How many times a year should we train on oxygen transportation?

February 12, 2026

Fire & Life Safety, Quality & Errors

Q: We just had a CMS validation survey and received a finding under K-tag K-926 for not having good enough documentation of training on oxygen transportation. How many times a year do we have to give ...

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Report: Building a smarter healthcare facility

February 12, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Quality & Errors, Physical environment

There’s nothing simple about running a healthcare facility. With complex moving parts creating an operationally challenging environment, hospitals can’t afford to be inefficient or lag behind. How hea...

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Medication reconciliation: Prescriptions from multiple providers provide room for error

Improving patient access to their data

Excerpt: Soaring to Success - The Path to Developing High-Reliability Clinical Teams

The opioid crisis continues: Have you bolstered your health system’s drug diversion defenses yet?

Mental shortcuts, fallacies, and patient harm: How we make healthcare decisions drives patient outcomes

High turnover and low reliability: A self-destructive cycle

Delayed care linked to increase in NJ excess deaths during pandemic, report says

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, January 2022

How many times a year should we train on oxygen transportation?

Report: Building a smarter healthcare facility

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