Person & Family Engagement (PFE) is now recognized as a method for reducing medical errors, falls, and hospital readmissions. In this video, Medstar Health’s Marty Hatlie explains what PFE is [...]
According to the World Health Organization, one in four people in the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives. Around 450 million people currently suffer from [...]
Two Examples of How Structured Hand-off Communication Reduces Preventable Harm
As healthcare has evolved and become more specialized, patients are likely to encounter more handoffs than just a few generations ago. Ineffective [...]
PATIENT SAFETY SUCCESS STORY: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER DRAMATICALLY REDUCES INSTANCES OF FAILURE TO RESCUE: OPIOID-INDUCED RESPIRATORY DEPRESSION
With the opioid epidemic making headlines across the world, a silent crisis is [...]
Topic: Nasogastric Feeding & Drainage Tube Placement & Verification
New mother Deahna Visscher was feeling hopeful. Although her son Grant had been born with a heart defect, he was doing very well [...]
“Overuse and underuse of cesarean birth is a patient safety issue, both in the short term and long term.” Jill Arnold
Jill Arnold can recall exactly when she decided to learn [...]
Could better patient outcomes be as simple as implementing a comprehensive patient blood management (PBM) program? Developed by Prof. Kai Zacharowski, recipient of one of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s [...]
Most of us go about our daily lives with the attitude that becoming a statistic is something that happens to other people. We’d be too paralyzed with fear to function [...]
The recipe for creating a culture of patient safety at any hospital is relatively simple, but it is by no means easy to pull off. The key ingredients are innovation,
initiative, [...]
There is perhaps nothing more tragic in healthcare than a mother dying from childbirth. Advances in medical technology and practices during the past century had reduced maternal mortality in the [...]
