In 1999, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America published “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” — an investigation into the prevalence of medical errors ...

Accurate linking of an individual's medical records from disparate sources within and between health systems, known as patient matching, plays a critical role in patient safety and quality of care, ...

Quality measurement is an important tool for incentivizing improvement in the quality of health care. Most quality measurement efforts do not explicitly target health equity. Although some measurement ...

CMS will add seven new measures to its hospital inpatient quality reporting program as part of its Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule released Aug. 1. The patient safety measure ...

Measuring clinical performance may have unintended beneficial effects on patients and providers beyond the direct clinical benchmarks under consideration, according to research in BMJ Quality & Safety ...

Urge-to-cough and cough symptoms were the 2 main domains of a 51-item framework to measure cough severity. Using information collected from patient focus groups and expert panel members, researchers ...

Last year, I faced a harrowing experience that would change my perspective on healthcare forever. What began as an emergency surgery to combat a flesh-eating bacteria quickly turned into a nightmare.

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Medical procedures using radiation are saving lives every ...

It is applied across governmental, semi-governmental and private healthcare facilities. The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has announced the launch of the ‘Qatar Patient Safety Classification’. It ...