Still more to do to improve perioperative safety and prevent patient harm

“Do No Harm” - ORReady Initiative Aims to Improve Safety and Outcome for 6 Million Patients

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a landmark report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System.1 The IOM reported that up to 98,000 Americans die each year due to medical error and that more people were dying from medical errors than from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. The report defined safety as “freedom from accidental injury” and brought patient safe...

Using Process Measures to Improve Patient Safety Practices to Prevent Pulmonary Embolism

Pulmonary embolism (PE), or venous thromboembolism (VTE), is one of the most common and potentially preventable causes of hospital death. PE reduction is a key strategy to improving patient safety in hospitals. A pilot study involving six hospitals in New York State was conducted to implement targeted methods to improve physician compliance with known prophylaxis strategies and increase awarene...

Do automated dispensing machines improve patient safety?

Addiction Studies in Iran Neuroscientists Need to Do More

Technology and simulation to improve patient safety.

Improving the quality and efficiency of surgical techniques, reducing technical errors in the operating suite, and ultimately improving patient safety and outcomes through education are common goals in all surgical specialties. Current surgical simulation programs represent an effort to enhance and optimize the training experience, to overcome the training limitations of a mandated 80-hour work...