Incomplete nursing care is known to affect care quality and safety. This special issue documents the global problem of missed or rationed nursing care in a variety of settings and countries. Articles featured in this special issue examine systemic issues, explore interventions, and evaluate measurement tools.

Nursing home patients are vulnerable to preventable harm due to poor safety culture, insufficient staffing levels, lack of regulation enforcement, and misaligned financial incentives. This news investigation reports on how poor practices resulted in resident harm in Pennsylvania nursing homes and discusses strategies for improvement, such as enhancing investigation processes.

This series, developed in conjunction with the STAAR initiative, provides tactics and resources to improve transitions across various care settings.

This supplement discusses Australian efforts to improve handover safety with emphasis on flexible standardization, communication improvement, and information sharing tactics.