Category: Patient Safety

Falls remain one of the most persistent and costly patient safety challenges in healthcare, with nearly 1 million patients experiencing falls annually. Despite decades of protocol development, staff training, and...

Patient safety in healthcare is at an inflection point. Despite decades of guidelines, audits, and improvement initiatives, preventable harm remains stubbornly persistent....

Discover the power of non-punitive approaches and technology in building a culture of safety in healthcare. Insights from Carlos Molina, Director of...

During the 1980s, I was working at Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory (LPARL) with a focus on high performance computing. In 1986,...

The new Hospital Safety Grade report reveals the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patient safety and experience. Learn how hospitals can...

Preventing Falls with Predictive Tools Hospitals have been making progress in fall prevention, but the most recent data still show a significant...

Technology in the healthcare workplace can evoke passionate responses from managers and staff, both positive and negative. Any individual response generally depends...

Infections caused by the spread of bacteria and viruses continue to cause illness and death around the world, with coronavirus being only...

Health care is fast – and stressful. It’s no wonder why so many nurses suffer from various kinds of fatigue or trauma....

Believe it or not, the answer to the question this article’s headline poses has been debated for at least the past 20...