A new study finds that approximately four to nine human factors contribute to each never event. ...

Quality improvement requires strength in numbers. At least that's what hospitals in Maryland and Pennsylvania are finding as recent reports show that collaboration among local hospitals can lead to ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in trouble, having recently been written out of the 2016 Health and Human Services budget....

A survey of patients affected by medical errors found that a lack of trust in the healthcare system could lead patients and families to pursue a lawsuit....

Rule furthers CMS's plan to transition from fee-for-service payments to value-based purchasing by focusing on quality care...

A study published in the April edition of the Journal of Hospital Medicine combines the principles of real-time feedback and financial incentives to get frontline buy-in for quality improvement init...

This is the final installment of a three-part series in which the authors introduce the idea of workforce analytics and its impact on hospital organizations. ...

The Joint Commission extended the mandatory reporting of the Perinatal Care performance measure set from 1,100 births per year to a minimum of 300 births per year....

A Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority report found that mistakes involving patients with special dietary needs are more common than expected....

The National Patient Safety Foundation has released new guidelines designed to help hospitals use root cause analysis to investigate medical errors....