Patient Safety

It's been six years since a group of infection prevention organizations, hospital associations, and regulators assembled to release the ...Read More »

Fifteen years after a major Institute of Medicine report, hospitals have made no progress on patient safety, experts told a Senate panel last week...Read More »

A New York Times report found that patient safety is severely lacking in U.S. military hospitals, with many patient deaths going...Read More »

Some argue that the AHRQ survey doesn't paint the full pictureRead More »

Updated scores from The Leapfrog Group shows a 6.3% overall improvement in scores, and highlights Maine as one of the top...Read More »

Data integrity failures with health IT, poor care coordination, and reporting errors associated with test results top list...Read More »

System administrators say quality reporting using third-party measures "will raise the bar for all of us"Read More »

Updated scores from The Leapfrog Group shows a 6.3% overall improvement in scores, and highlights Maine as one of the top...Read More »

Research shows that a tired workforce leads to poor patient care, although many facilities have yet to embrace the importance of this issue.Read More »

Report offers comprehensive look at national and state infection rates, highlighting challenges that still face hospitalsRead More »