Quality & Errors

Operating under the assumption that the government is moving toward enacting reimbursement penalties for all-cause readmissions, some hospitals...Read More »

Editor's note: "Culture club" is a new Patient Safety Monitor Journal feature that focuses on how combining safety...Read More »

In just about every hospital, there is at least one person devoted to keeping patients safe from medication errors every step of...Read More »

In a memorandum published to state survey agency directors March 15, CMS resoundingly announced its support of the use of the Agency for...Read More »

There is a whole field of medicine related to keeping patients safe in ­hospitals, and many of these professionals' daily jobs...Read More »

True or False: As long as a hospital has a thorough and complete formulary, the hospital can omit having a process to obtain medications that...Read More »

Q: What are the processes required related to meet the standards for FPPE?Read More »

In the Leapfrog Group's third release of hospital safety grades, overall scores rose minutely, but more hospitals got worse than got better. "So...Read More »

By now, many in healthcare have learned from other industries that getting frontline staff input is essential to quality...Read More »

Patient satisfaction and quality of care matter to most frontline staff and other hospital employees, and they certainly matter...Read More »