The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health and Safety gave safety recommendations for patient-controlled analgesia pumps to manage pain, according to The Sacramento Bee. PCA pumps are used for patients ...

The National Patient Safety Foundation has published guidelines developed to help healthcare organizations improve the way they investigate medical errors, adverse events and near misses. The ...

In addition to understanding why a medical error happened, healthcare organizations must also take strong action through its root cause analysis (RCA) process to keep ...

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety encourages the adoption of newly released guidelines by the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation to improve the safety of patients following surgery.

Members of a coalition of health care purchasers, quality groups and federal agencies in conjunction with the National Quality Forum have agreed to support a single set of 30 "safe practices" for all ...

Anjali Joseph ([email protected]) is a professor of architecture and the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Endowed Chair in Architecture and Health Design, School of Architecture, Clemson ...

Misidentifying patients can have tragic consequences. Numerous catastrophic cases and near misses have been collected by Patient ID Now, a coalition of health care organizations we are affiliated with ...

"Inpatient teams face important limitations in ensuring safe transitions to ambulatory settings," the report continues. "Given the great variability of inpatient and ambulatory care team resources and ...

A fact that many Nigerians will readily agree with is that our health infrastructure, manpower, investment, utilities, and ...