For example, we do not know whether checklist-based timeouts only decrease the occurrence ... in collaboration with the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation and the American Society of ...

Frontline healthcare workers face a continued threat of violence, which puts staff well-being and patient care at risk. With violence incidents on the rise, a top priority for healthcare leaders is ...

The intervention is performance of a perioperative checklist defined as a list that exists in a physical and/or electronic form used prior to an operation to ensure patient safety. We did not specify ...

Three sets of initiatives can advance practical wisdom in health care, creating a more patient-centered system grounded in ...

Care transitions can negatively impact the patient’s experience, as well as healthcare costs. When emergency medicine and hospital medicine clinicians fail to communicate, for example, patients may ...

AHRQ’s recent focus on Patient Safety Learning Laboratories provides an example of how architecture and design features can be integrated as principal components of a systems engineering ...

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May 15—Solano County hospitals scored high marks in patient safety, according to a new report from The Leapfrog Group. Leapfrog is a national hospital watchdog organization and scores for area ...

This framework sets out five key principles to reduce patient safety healthcare inequalities across the NHS. It outlines opportunities that local teams and integrated care boards (ICBs) can implement, ...

The current work has implications for patient safety research, healthcare improvement and clinical practice. First, we have shown that our sample of patients was largely in favour of the WHO checklist ...

Staffing shortages and delays in assessing expectant mums are among a series of patient safety concerns found with maternity services at Dundee's Ninewells Hospital. The concerns were identified ...