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 ...

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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 ...

Construction organizations put enormous effort into safety. Walk any job and you’ll see it in motion: inductions, JHAs, permit sign-ons, PTPs, inspections, observations, etc. But anyone with site ...

Radiological reporting is a central component of clinical decision-making and a patient safety-critical system. Radiology ...

Having already set expectations around the structured capture of medical device safety data, regulators are now ready to analyze related insights, and they expect device manufacturers to match this ...

With former director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., out of the picture, HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) appears to be setting his ...

Consolidating adverse event databases is a smart move, but without public education, real-time transparency risks becoming ...