Patient Safety

More than 150 healthcare organizations, food companies, and animal health organizations met at the White House Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship...Read More »

Two San Francisco hospitals share their experiences with a fleet of robots that ­collect trash, deliver food, and pick up...Read More »

Hospital rooms contain an increasing number of medical devices that don't talk to one another, which some say is a growing...Read More »

Two San Francisco hospitals share their experiences with a fleet of robots that ­collect trash, deliver food, and pick up...Read More »

As patient falls continue to plague healthcare facilities of all shapes and sizes, health systems in Georgia and Nebraska...Read More »

The California Department of Public Health last week fined 12 hospitals after investigations found the facilities caused patient deaths or serious...Read More »

A Journal of the American Medical Association article calls on physicians to work together and take a leadership role in efforts to...Read More »

A new study finds that unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics is often due to disagnostic mistakes.
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Recent carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE) outbreaks at two Los Angeles hospitals have raised serious questions regarding reprocessing...Read More »

Fifteen years after the Institute of Medicine's landmark report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the National Patient...Read More »