The National Quality Forum is aiming to modernize and standardize serious adverse event reporting via a new patient safety effort. Through the “Focus on HARM” initiative, NQF will update the criteria ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 hospital wants clinicians to know quickly when scans show unexpected or emergent results. Massachusetts General Hospital has launched an innovative patient safety initiative to promote the timely ...

In the realm of health care, cultivating a robust patient safety culture is essential for delivering high-quality care and minimizing risks. At Rutland Regional Medical Center, we understand frequent ...