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This piece focuses on measuring and monitoring patient safety in the prehospital setting.

This piece explores how missed nursing care may explain the association between low nurse staffing levels and increased mortality in hospital patients.

Dr. Starmer is Director of Primary Care Quality Improvement and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. We spoke with her about handoffs and the implementation and findings of the landmark I-PASS study.

Most patient interactions with the health care system occur in the outpatient setting. Many potential and actual safety problems occur there as well.(1) Yet patient safety literature and practice do not seem to have reached deeply into ambulatory care.