Venous thromboembolism (VTE) represents both a significant health threat for at-risk patients and a financial burden. Meanwhile, provider organizations that fail to focus on and prevent VTE from ...

PDI has released its Healthcare Reform Champions Kit, a digital educational tool that helps explain key components of the recent healthcare reform legislation. The toolkit aims at assisting infection ...

Aspirus hospitals ranked in the top 10% statewide for patient safety, infection prevention, and care quality by the Wisconsin ...

Becker’s Hospital Review has named “50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety,” which includes individuals at national organizations, universities and healthcare organizations working to improve ...

Over the course of the past decade, U.S. hospitals collectively improved patient safety measures such as medical errors and healthcare-associated infections, according to the Leapfrog Group, a ...

Mike Eisenberg is the founder of Tall Tale Productions in Chicago and director of the health care documentaries The Pitch: Patient Safety's Next Generation and To Err Is Human. Technology is changing ...

In the Women and Infants Center at UAB, patient safety is critically important. We strive to deliver effective and efficient care while protecting our patients from harm. One example of patient safety ...

Clinicians’ increased burdens are making it harder for valid concerns voiced by patients, their families and their caretakers to be acknowledged, raising the risk of missed diagnoses and exacerbated ...

Hospital care helps patients recover from serious illness and injury but, all too often, patients can also be harmed by it. In 2010, our office, the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department ...