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ECRI Institute is now accepting submissions to its 8th annual Health Devices Achievement Award program. ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, has recognized healthcare organizations nationwide for the past seven years with its prestigious award for achieving excellence in technology management and patient safety.

Class III obese patients are more likely than a patient in the general adverse event population to experience a harmful adverse event, according to information in the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority’s March Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory.

When it comes to addressing patient safety issues within a hospital, nurses want to make a difference and they assign themselves great responsibility for safe outcomes. However, the question remains whether hospitals are doing everything they can in terms of keeping patients safe. According to a recent survey of nurses in the United States, UK and China by GE Healthcare and the American Nurses Association (ANA), many nurses have witnessed errors and few call their own hospitals safe.

As a result of persistent, ongoing safety issues, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is calling for hospitals to closely reexamine their policies regarding insulin pen devices and consider transitioning away from insulin pens for routine inpatient use.