Value and Patient Safety

Improving safety in health care organizations requires commitment from senior leadership and governance.... Read More

This piece describes a collaborative, interdisciplinary team approach with a flat hierarchy used at Intermountain Healthcare's Dixie Regional Medical Center that led to substantial reduction of key neonatal morbidities... Read More

Nudges are a change in the way choices are presented or information is framed that can have a large, but predictable, impact on medical decision-making, for both patients... Read More

Most research on computerized provider order entry (CPOE) has focused on its role in preventing medication errors. This modeling study... Read More

Health care–associated infections are a longstanding patient safety priority, and intensive multifaceted interventions have been shown to prevent... Read More

Organizational evaluations often reveal opportunities to address persistent quality and safety issues. This extensive inspection report shares findings... Read More

Adverse drug events (ADE) in the outpatient setting can result in hospital admission and are largely preventable. This study used data from the earlier... Read More

Reducing low-value tests and treatments has been a focus of patient safety efforts, but less attention has been focused... Read More