Quality & Patient Safety Articles by Topic: Adverse Events
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 2, February 1, 2014
Look at any hospital ranking system and you’ll see the same headlines: “Best hospitals...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 2, February 1, 2014
More than 2,500 general hospitals in the United States received Hospital Safety Scores, and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 39, September 25, 2012
The Obama administration has proposed a consumer reporting system that will allow patients to...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 38, September 18, 2012
A seventh patient has died due to a drug-resistant strain of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 34, August 21, 2012
Although two recent studies support the argument for the existence of a “weekend...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 30, July 24, 2012
An estimated 60% of adverse events occurred at hospitals in states with reporting systems, yet only...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 23, June 6, 2012
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 15, April 11, 2012
The widow of a man who died while donating a part of his liver to his brother-in-law plans to file...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 12, March 21, 2012
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has looked at CMS and found its system of hospital oversight...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 10, March 7, 2012
Hospitals that have implemented advanced electronic medical record (EMR) systems have seen...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 10, March 7, 2012
More than 100 patients or families of patients have filed lawsuits against Brookdale University...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 2, January 11, 2012
A new study has researchers at Yale School of Medicine questioning whether death rates in hospitals...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 2, January 11, 2012
According to a report from the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 48, November 30, 2011
The family of a patient who died after nurses failed to respond to alarms on his cardiac monitor...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 44, November 2, 2011
One of the largest settlements of its kind in California was reached October 28. Methodist Hospital...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 43, October 26, 2011
Public Citizen, a nonprofit organization that helps advocate for individual rights, is calling for...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 41, October 19, 2011
The Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has released a second edition of its Respectful...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 40, October 5, 2011
Emergency physicians in the state of Washington have filed a lawsuit against a state plan to...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 39, September 28, 2011
A patient death at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, CA, that has been connected with a...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 37, September 14, 2011
A new study by University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill found that adopting inexpensive...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 35, August 31, 2011
Temporary emergency department (ED) nurses who are unfamiliar with their surroundings may...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 34, August 24, 2011
Almost all major heart attack patients are being treated within 90 minutes of arrival according to...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 33, August 17, 2011
The Pennsylvania state Department of Health’s recent investigation of Carlisle (PA) Regional...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 32, August 10, 2011
Federal health officials have announced that they have expanded the HospitalCompare website, making...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 31, August 3, 2011
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) announced its goal to enlist at least 1,000 hospitals into...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 3, August 3, 2011
In an effort to ensure more reporting of adverse events, Minister for Health James Reilly is...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 28, July 13, 2011
Editor’s note: New rules on medical residents' hours issued by The Accreditation...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 27, July 6, 2011
In2008, the Oregon Patient Safety Commission implemented an adverse event reporting system that...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 27, July 6, 2011
Because a new class of medical school graduates begin their residencies in July, the month...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 26, June 29, 2011
Up to $500 million will be awarded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 25, June 22, 2011
Many hospitals are performing a type of chest scan that give patients too much radiation at a time...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 23, June 8, 2011
A new study published in the June 2011 issue of British Medical Journal found that patient...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 23, June 8, 2011
Consumer Reports recently studied 61 health systems with at least five hospitals that publicly...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 22, June 1, 2011
A new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that although e-prescribing systems...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 22, June 1, 2011
A California Court of Appeals in Los Angeles upheld a $4.7 million arbitration award to a skull...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 21, May 25, 2011
The ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization (PSO) has received reports of cardiac monitoring of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 20, May 18, 2011
A new study in the May issue of Archives of Surgery concludes that patients admitted on weekends...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 19, May 11, 2011
Crico/RMF Strategies, whose parent company insures hospitals affiliated with Harvard University, is...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 18, May 4, 2011
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) found multiple patient safety deficiencies...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 17, April 27, 2011
The simple bedside technique of gently probing a surgical incision to clean it has been shown to...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 16, April 20, 2011
Patients with alcohol use disorders might be more likely to die from healthcare-associated...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 15, April 13, 2011
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 14, April 6, 2011
Because hands-free faucets are touched less often, it is widely assumed such faucets carry fewer...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 10, March 9, 2011
Staff at the Children's Hospital in Aurora, CO, became alarmed last fall when some young patients...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 10, March 9, 2011
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued a press release and media advisory...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 8, February 23, 2011
A woman who receives one abdominal-pelvic CT scan has a one in 250 chance of getting cancer. This...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 7, February 16, 2011
Nurses at Tufts Medical Center in Boston are holding a candlelight vigil on February 15, 2011 for...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 6, February 9, 2011
After an inspection that showed possible contamination of surgical equipment, the John Cochran...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 5, February 2, 2011
The checklist Peter Pronovost, MD, professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 5, February 2, 2011
A new report published in the January 28, 2011 issue of British Medical Journal has found that...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 2, January 12, 2011
Risk managers, financial officers, and patient safety directors could likely spend countless hours...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 1, January 5, 2011
Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is on the rise in U.S. children, reports the Los Angeles Times.
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 1, January 5, 2011
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has released a new free white paper on managing...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 52, December 29, 2010
Some medications are in short supply at hospitals across the nation, reports ABC News.
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 52, December 29, 2010
Whether or not a hospital gives quality care is often measured by mortality rate, but different...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 51, December 22, 2010
A new California state law will mandate the reporting of line infections, methicillin-resistant...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 49, December 8, 2010
Quality rankings on The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) consumer website...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 46, November 17, 2010
A new government study has found that approximately 134,000 out of 1 million discharged Medicare...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 45, November 10, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), after investigating reports concerning computed...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 44, November 3, 2010
After two children died as a result of medication errors, Seattle Children's Hospital has launched...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 44, November 3, 2010
Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, OK, cut its Clostridium difficile (C. diff) rate...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 42, October 20, 2010
A study in the October issue of Archives of Surgery found that despite guidelines such as The Joint...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 40, October 6, 2010
The Institutional Review Board at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, NY, has given GE...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 39, September 29, 2010
In the latest issue of The Joint Commission Online newsletter, The Joint Commission announced that...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 38, September 22, 2010
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association announced that it has established a companywide payment...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 35, September 1, 2010
Since 1996, many experts and standards groups have called for medical tubing regulation to prevent...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 9, September 1, 2010
A new report released by The Leapfrog Group shows that computer physician order entry (CPOE...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 31, August 4, 2010
Students at medical schools across the country are being given the opportunity to take elective...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 27, July 7, 2010
The Leapfrog Group released the results of a study that shows through web-based simulation that...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
The July issue contains the following stories:
Maryland program provides road map for...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
If your hospital is lucky enough to be within the borders of the state of Maryland, you can...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Editor’s note: The following column explores patient safety from the perspective of a...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 24, June 16, 2010
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority (PPSA) has collected 177 reports of disruptive behavior...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 23, June 9, 2010
Last Friday the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced it had created a new...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 18, May 5, 2010
Much debate has been had over whether computer-physician order entry (CPOE) systems have helped to...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 18, May 5, 2010
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released a snapshot of the nation’s...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Inside: Report says medical students need increased training on patient safety Quilt...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Today’s medical students are not learning enough about patient safety, the importance of...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Staff members are often trained to report a potential medical error, or near-miss event. However...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 17, April 28, 2010
A new analysis from the British Medical Journal says that using mortality rates as a measure of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 14, April 7, 2010
HealthGrades has released the results of its 7th annual “Patient Safety in American...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 13, March 31, 2010
The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services released a document earlier this week...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 12, March 24, 2010
By following an eight-step protocol, caregivers working with heart and stroke patients could...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 11, March 17, 2010
A 2007 law requiring that California hospitals report on 28 "never events" has helped...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 11, March 17, 2010
Hospitals are more often considering their employed caregiver's well-being after a medical error...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
This issue contains articles about medical interpreter certification, patient safety awareness...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
One of the most vital parts of providing adequate healthcare is the exchange of information between...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Q: How should our organization meet compliance with educating patients and their families on...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 8, February 24, 2010
According to a study in the most recent issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, sepsis and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 7, February 17, 2010
A study published in the February 2010 Archives of Surgery shows that the occurrence of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 5, February 3, 2010
Even though much progress has been made since the first studies showing that physicians apologizing...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 4, January 27, 2010
The Joint Commission issued its latest Sentinel Event Alert on Tuesday about preventing maternal...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 4, January 27, 2010
The Health Research and Educational Trust, an affiliate of the American Hospital Association...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 3, January 20, 2010
Members of the Advancing Patient Safety Coalition (APSC) wrote a letter to congressional leaders...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 3, January 20, 2010
A recent post written by Bob Wachter, MD, on the widely popular KevinMD blog, talks about how his...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 2, January 13, 2010
The Office of Inspector General released a memorandum last week saying that there is no...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 2, January 13, 2010
Hospitals in California reported 1,583 serious preventable events occurring for the fiscal year...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 51, December 23, 2009
A study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine found that hospitalized patients are often...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 50, December 16, 2009
There is $25 million available in grants from the federal government for improving patient safety...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 50, December 16, 2009
Poor communication was the most common cause of wrong-site, -side, and -person, surgeries at the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 50, December 16, 2009
For those hospitals looking for a concise list of actions to take to prevent adverse events and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 49, December 9, 2009
The Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) blog, a resource for nursing and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 48, December 2, 2009
November 2009 marked the ten year anniversary since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 47, November 25, 2009
Some surgeons are likely to commit medical errors if they are suffering from burnout and...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 46, November 18, 2009
Members of the public in the state of Connecticut are being increasingly kept in the dark about...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 46, November 18, 2009
HCPro is proud to announce its latest patient safety product: Patient Safety Monitor.
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 45, November 11, 2009
A study published in the November 9 Archives of Internal Medicine reveals that hospital staff...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 45, November 11, 2009
Physicians are responsible for one of the most complicated and important decisions in...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 45, November 11, 2009
After admitting last month it delivered radiation via CT scans to patients at eight times the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 44, November 4, 2009
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority has issued an advisory regarding the use of Tamiflu in...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 44, November 4, 2009
Staff members at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, RI, have committed the facility's fifth...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 43, October 28, 2009
The initial meeting of the Subcommittee on Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 41, October 14, 2009
Washington is one of the only states in the nation to require mandatory reporting of medical...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 41, October 14, 2009
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, has found that it accidentally administered...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 40, October 7, 2009
The debate on whether reducing the number of hours that graduate medical students can work...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
In the decade that has passed since the 1999 release of the Institute of Medicine’s To Err is...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 39, September 30, 2009
A study published in the September 2009 Journal of the American College of Surgeons has concluded...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 38, September 23, 2009
A recent study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that physicians who were...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 37, September 16, 2009
Electronic alerts were found to have had a significant impact on the number of potential...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 35, September 2, 2009
A recent commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association calls for a list of patient...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 35, September 2, 2009
New Jersey joins a list of states that by law requires hospitals to provide information about...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
In the past ten years, a fair amount of headway has been made in refining error reporting systems...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
This issue contains stories that discuss a new consumer reporting system developed by the Agency...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 4, August 26, 2009
Traditionally, the healthcare system has taken an approach to medical errors that involves secrecy...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 32, August 12, 2009
A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation released last week shows that emergency departments...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 32, August 12, 2009
In a new report titled "Back to Basics," the consumer activist group Public Citizen has...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 30, July 29, 2009
An article in the July Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety highlights the gaps...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 30, July 29, 2009
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) warned of potential misuse of pain release balls...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 4, July 8, 2009
Stemming from the mandate of a 2005 law, the New York State Department of Health released a report...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
Performing hand hygiene adequately and often is something that many healthcare facilities are...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
For the first time since the state began requiring hospitals to report serious medical errors five...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
Although U.S. leaders in industry and politics agree that the healthcare system needs a complete...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
In what healthcare analysts believe to be representative of the nation as a whole, hospitals are...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
Computer Physician Order Entry (CPOE) has been thought to be one method to reduce the number of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
Nine hospitals began taking part in a pilot program last week to track and analyze adverse events...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 16, April 22, 2009
The American Hospital Association (AHA) voiced support of the American Council for Graduate Medical...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 7, April 14, 2009
Beginning this year, Malaysia’s Health Ministry will implement the "Incident Reporting...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 7, April 14, 2009
At a recent press conference held at Jordan’s Health Care Accreditation Council (HCAC...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 7, April 14, 2009
After Ennis General Hospital received a poor report about their quality and patient safety services...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 7, April 14, 2009
After a two-year investigation conducted by The Star of the cosmetic surgery industry and its lack...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 7, April 14, 2009
A new antibiotic aimed at shortening the time to cure tuberculosis (TB) has passed a key phase...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
The sixth annual HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study was released on April 7...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
A paper published in the most recent issue of Health Affairshighlights some of the areas in which...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 31, 2009
After a highly criticized report of one Stafford hospital led the Healthcare Commission to brand...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 31, 2009
Police have been called in to help investigate the Hospital Authority's most recent allegation of...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 31, 2009
Trinidad's Health Ministry will be taking a step toward improving patient safety by introducing the...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 17, 2009
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) revealed new figures stating that during a recent six...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 17, 2009
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has composed a list of eight errors that National Health...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 17, 2009
Public concern is rising after a Tokyo eye clinic revealed that 67 patients have suffered from...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 17, 2009
The way in which patients and healthcare providers communicate will be revolutionized by the use of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
A recent report by the New York City (NYC) comptroller found that hospitals in NYC report...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
Press Ganey, a consulting firm that works with 40% of the nation's hospitals to help improve...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 5, March 3, 2009
Six months after the launch of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) new pre-operative...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 5, March 3, 2009
Ventracor's VentrAssist, an implant used to treat heart failure, will be banned worldwide after the...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 5, March 3, 2009
The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) has asked that manufactures of the drug ibuprofen update its...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 5, March 3, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a public health advisory for patients using the...
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Patient Safety Staff Challenge: Global Edition, Issue 5, March 3, 2009
The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) has urged all National Health System (NHS) and...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 4, February 17, 2009
Britain's most senior radiology specialist announced that unnecessary deaths are occurring because...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 4, February 17, 2009
In Ireland, a cabinet-proposed plan will protect healthcare staff members wishing to report on...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 4, February 17, 2009
As New South Wales (NSW) public hospitals report their worst financial results on record for the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 5, February 4, 2009
Patients who have been educated about how to continue their care once they are discharged from the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 5, February 4, 2009
Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is being sued for failing to release peer review records and other...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 4, February 4, 2009
A new study shows that transferring a peel-off colored sticker from a medication vial to a syringe...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 3, February 3, 2009
The United Kingdom’s Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) have claimed that patients&rsquo...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 3, February 3, 2009
At Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital, nearly fifty patients have been treated on temporary beds at...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 3, February 3, 2009
A recent report by the Productivity Commission found that Queensland hospitals show some of the...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 3, February 3, 2009
A Freedom of Information request by Liberal Democrats has revealed that from 2007-2008, 191 deaths...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
As part of an expansion of the Patient Safety Act that went into effect in New Jersey four years...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
In an attempt to prevent wrong-site surgeries, Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN, has taken a...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
California has published a study ranking hospitals based on their mortality rates, reports The Los...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
Since August 2008, patients at Veterans Affairs (VA) health centers across the country have been...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
A study released by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week shows that when implementing the...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 0, January 20, 2009
The Scottish government, working with infection experts, has announced a 15-point plan to help its...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 2, January 20, 2009
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority will be forced to investigate and review the 2,577 deaths that...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 2, January 20, 2009
According to figures obtained by The Daily Mail, 3,645 patients have died in the 2007/2008 year as...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 2, January 20, 2009
A pilot study in which eight hospitals across the globe implemented a new surgical checklist has...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
Although his inauguration does not take place until next week, President-elect Barack Obama is...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
The inability for medical devices to communicate with each other is becoming a growing concern...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
Pfizer has joined together with Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 1, January 6, 2009
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality Healthcare is asking the Australian government to...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 1, January 6, 2009
Little has been done to help the crumbling buildings and failing infrastructure of the United...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 1, January 6, 2009
Health Minister Katy Gallagher has called for patient electronic health cards for Canberra...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 52, December 24, 2008
In 2007, 72 people died in New Jersey hospitals due to preventable errors, says data from the third...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 25, December 23, 2008
Australian Health Minister John Della Bosca says that the government will require hospitals to...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 25, December 23, 2008
In the past year, medical mistakes have killed 28 patients in Victoria, Australia, according to the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 51, December 17, 2008
The Joint Commission has released its latest Sentinel Event Alert, this time looking at prevention...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 24, December 9, 2008
After a four-year period in which 11 children were overdosed with a chemotherapy drug, the South...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 24, December 9, 2008
The House of Commons Health Committee received news that 40,000 patients die every year from...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 49, December 3, 2008
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has asked U.S. hospitals to look at their resident programs and...
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Patient Safety Monitor, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
When Minnesota’s hospitals outwardly recognized in 2007 that the state’s process for...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 23, November 25, 2008
A government-funded study published in the Scottish Medical Journal that reviewed case notes of 354...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 23, November 25, 2008
At High Prairie Health Complex, in northern Alberta, a handful of nurses have been injecting...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 23, November 25, 2008
The National Health Service’s National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) is proposing a list of...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 23, November 25, 2008
According to a government report, nurses’ numerical errors are putting patients in danger...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 45, November 5, 2008
St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, NY is investigating the cause for seven newborn...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 22, October 28, 2008
By next year, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare will launch a...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 22, October 28, 2008
An Australian Medical Association survey of 1,000 doctors reveals that they work between 50 and 100...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 22, October 28, 2008
Scarborough Hospital, Canada's largest urban community hospital, has turned around its reputation...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 43, October 22, 2008
Although its price tag would likely be $11 billion, unique patient identifiers (UPI) would...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 21, October 14, 2008
Inspectors of National Health Service (NHS) Quality Improvement Scotland, which monitors Scottish...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 41, October 8, 2008
Doctors are more likely to admit errors that are obvious than those that are less obvious, reports...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 20, September 30, 2008
On October 3, 2008, Ontario hospitals will begin posting infection rates of Clostridium difficile...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 20, September 30, 2008
Auckland hospitals are short of patient beds, jeopardizing patient safety, reports the New Zealand...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 39, September 24, 2008
The state of Rhode Island suffered its eighth wrong site surgery within the past decade, when...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 19, September 16, 2008
Hospital leaders from the United States, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Kuwait are...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 19, September 16, 2008
Patients hospitalized during Toronto's SARS outbreak in 2003 did not suffer from the temporary...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 19, September 16, 2008
After a deadly outbreak of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), which included 18 deaths and more...
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Patient Safety Monitor Insider, Issue 37, September 10, 2008
The liability of medical professionals may be broadened in a pending Massachusetts case, reports...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 18, September 2, 2008
Two annual reviews of hospitals in the Sydney West Area Health Service that claim 49 patients died...
