A recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) study revealed a startling statistic: U.S. hospitals are missing approximately half of all patient harm events. While this figure undoubtedly represents a ...

The ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization has released a new version of its adverse event collection and reporting system. ECRI Institute has continued to update and improve its web-based patient ...

A hospital’s patient safety initiatives are only as effective as the tools used to track and analyze incidents. Despite significant progress over the past two decades following the 2005 Patient Safety ...

Harm and the potential for harm from medical care is pervasive and well-documented. Much of the safety literature has historically focused on physical harm, but the Agency for Healthcare Research and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s National Healthcare Safety Network offers a free, downloadable patient safety monthly reporting plan. The monthly reporting plan was designed to help ...

Hospitals’ incident reporting systems are missing about half of Medicare patient harm events and even more infrequently investigating those events or reporting them to the government, according to a ...

The Safety Event Reporting System (SERS) is an online reporting system for incident reporting. The neonatal intensive care unit at Children's Hospital Boston uses the reports from these events, along ...

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America published “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” — an investigation into the prevalence of medical errors ...

Throughout the healthcare system, initiatives to promote patient safety, improve outcomes and report consistently on quality metrics are gaining considerable momentum. Many states have required ...

Patient safety likely remains the nation's third leading cause of death and addressing it needs to be a key national priority, a presidential panel said this week. The panel released a report ...