Category: Patient Safety

Before getting into specifics, put the issue of patient safety in perspective: What do you think would happen if 100,000 people died...

Recent data indicates that close to 25,000 fatal falls and 3.2 million medically-treated injuries from non-fatal falls occurred in hospitals across the...

Providing patients with sufficient attention and compassion can be just as crucial to their overall outcomes as the clinical treatment they receive...

  Magnitude of the Problem According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, healthcare-associated-infections affect 1 in every 25 patients hospitalized...