Objective: To review Public Law (PL) 109-41 the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA) and summarize key medication error research that ...
This week marks five years since President Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency and related lockdowns ...
As healthcare leaders increasingly focus on building a culture of safety, CMS’ Patient Safety Structural Measure (PSSM) has emerged as a cornerstone for achieving and sustaining compliance with ...
The bipartisan legislation aims to reduce patient misidentification while promoting interoperability between healthcare systems.
The New Mexico Patient Safety Act limits the number of patients a nurse can care for on shift and requires hospitals to come up with staffing ratios. The bill recently passed its first committee.
Physicians from Harvard Medical School whose papers were removed from a government patient safety website have filed a ...
The MATCH IT Act would address the problem of patient misidentification within the healthcare ecosystem while improving ...
The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is very effective and the best way to protect against the highly contagious measles virus and its potential for dangerous complications. The Latest Had ...
Report shows hospitals outperform pre-pandemic levels, boosting patient safety, care experience and workforce resilience.