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.

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Every year, more than 4.8 million patients lose their lives to preventable medical errors worldwide. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF), a global non-profit ...

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 ...

Patricia Gaffigan, RN, senior advisor on patient and workforce safety for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, voiced this question at an IHI conference in December. She said priorities are at ...

Ed Gaudet is the CEO and Founder of Censinet, a healthcare risk management platform, and member of the Health Sector Coordinating Council. At the CHIME24 Fall Forum, I faciltated a focus group session ...

While the value of HF/SE in improving patient safety has been demonstrated, the field remains significantly underused and not well understood. 9 In this article we describe HF/SE, its different facets ...

Twenty years after publication of the report To Err Is Human, studies demonstrate persisting high levels of patient harm. Most patient safety measurement remains highly retrospective, relying on ...

CMS issued a proposed rule Dec. 9 that would make several changes to the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model, effective Jan. 1. Four notes: 1. The Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model, ...

When patients seek healthcare services, they hold a core expectation that they will receive safe and effective care from their hospital, physician, nurse, pharmacist, etc. As part of the ongoing ...