New Service To Address CT Radiation Dose Safety
Study Confirms Passive Safety Devices Are Most Effective in Needlestick Injury Prevention
CareFusion Selects Palomar Pomerado Health as Development Partner for Patient Safety Technologies
NPSF Launches its 2011 Patient Safety Awareness Week Campaign
Minimize Harm for All
As much as we’d like to think that we can “get to zero” for all recurring medical errors, mistakes and adverse events will be part of medicine for the foreseeable future. In addition to working on prevention and mitigation of harm, clinicians and healthcare organizations should work on planning for the inevitable, in order to minimize harm and promote healing.
P.U.R.E. Conversations in Obstetrics
Raising SBAR to a Higher Level
P.U.R.E. Conversations in Obstetrics
Despite a widespread effort to improve patient safety in obstetrics, injuries still occur. These injuries can be devastating both to families who sustain them and to the caregivers involved in the actual event.
Automated Informed Consent
Automated Informed Consent
Patients and Institutions Benefit Alike
The process of obtaining informed consent from patients prior to providing certain medical services has evolved gradually over the years.
Accreditation Canada Report Explores the Connection Between Patient Safety and Quality of Worklife in Healthcare
Accreditation Canada’s 2010 national report on health care in Canada explores the connection between quality of worklife and patient safety in health organizations.
South Carolina Chosen as Pilot for National Effort to Improve Surgical Safety
The South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA) is embarking on a new patient safety program that can potentially save hundreds of patient lives each year and reduce the number of major surgical complications up to 30 percent.
2011 NPSF Patient Safety Congress Call for Speaker Abstracts
Widely respected for innovation and educational excellence, the annual NPSF Patient Safety Congress delivers meaningful and high-value programs designed to support critical patient safety initiatives from the board room to the C-suite to the front lines of care.