It’s a family’s nightmare: a car accident. It happened to one pediatrician and his child. The pediatrician was okay, but his young daughter complained that her head hurt, so they went to the ER. While ...

A safety education geared toward patients may help decrease the risk of harmful outcomes, according to a study published in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. For this study, 202 patients ...

If you had to describe a hospital’s mission, philosophy and guiding light with a single word, safety would sit at the top of ...

New data show that hospitals’ and health systems’ relentless focus on safety and quality improvement is paying off for ...

In 2025, national anesthesia organizations recognized clinicians and researchers whose work is influencing patient safety, health equity, education and policy. These five anesthesiologists were ...

Jeff Surges is a board member and former CEO of RLDatix, a leading global provider of connected healthcare operations software and services. Unsafe care is a global public health issue. According to ...

Credit: Thinkstock. Tools are provided to assist clinicians in providing their patients with clear and effective communication. As health care providers, we want to do everything we can to help our ...

Introduction: Mortality and morbidity (M&M) meetings present a forum to discuss and review in-hospital deaths and complications to improve patient care. However, it remains an untapped resource to ...

The professionals included on this list are prominent advocates for patient safety. They are clinicians, researchers and experts who focus on improving healthcare for large populations. Many honorees ...

Registered nurses at MarinHealth Medical Center in Greenbrae, Calif., will hold an informational picket on Friday, Dec. 12, to protest the hospital’s refusal to address nurses’ concerns about staff ...