Editor's note: Culture Club is a new Patient Safety Monitor Journal feature that focuses on how combining safety efforts creates a more effective overall culture of safety.
It's time again for the annual Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW), an annual education and awareness campaign for healthcare safety led by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) that began in 2002.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 3
A new report released Feb. 19 recognizes Dayton; Ohio, Phoenix; Cincinnati; and Milwaukee, among others, as the nation’s top hospitals and cities for hospital care based on in-hospital mortality rates.
Motivated by improved efficiencies and monetary incentives, healthcare is migrating to electronic health records. While this solves the issue of physicians' sloppy handwriting on paper, and creates a host of opportunities for the digitized data, it is creating a new set of challenges.
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