The National Quality Forum, with support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, has identified 30 safe practices that can reduce or prevent adverse events and medical errors. 1. Create a ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – As students head back to school, the South Carolina Department of Public Safety (SCDPS) is reminding drivers to practice safe driving habits. To help keep everyone safe on ...

The Joint Commission Resources has released a free, downloadable guide to help hospital executives and physician leaders incorporate safe practices in their facilities. The guide, Patient Safety ...

Getting behind the wheel of a car may feel like a monotonous part of your daily routine, but because we drive so often it's easy to forget how dangerous it really is. In 2020 alone, almost 40,000 ...

The Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety, an ECRI Institute collaborative, announced at HIMSS17 its second set of Safe Practice Recommendations aimed at reducing patient misidentification. The ...

Ambulatory surgery centers have made significant strides over the past several years in improving their infection prevention efforts, says Phenelle Segal, RN CIC, president of Infection Control ...

In recent years, the electrical industry has seen positive trends toward proper electrical safe work practices and utilization of personal protective equipment (PPE). However, one very routine task ...

Industrial manufacturing environments have inherent risks that require vigilant machine safety measures to ensure personnel safety while protecting businesses from potential insurance increases or ...

Current Trends in the Utilization of Preoperative Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Among Women With Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer This was a qualitative inquiry including any Alberta clinician ...

Safe coding is a collection of software design practices and patterns that allow for cost-effectively achieving a high degree ...