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This proposed rule suggests updates to the government requirements hospitals must comply with to participate in Medicare and Medicaid. Changes include emphasis on the role of leadership engagement and safety culture as ways to generate improvements in areas such as reducing hospital-acquired infections and readmissions. Comments on the proposed rule are due August 15, 2016.

Many graduate medical education programs have instituted patient safety didactics or online courses to meet accreditation standards, but these are likely insufficient in the face of real-world practices commonly witnessed by trainees in clinical settings. Recognizing the importance of this hidden curriculum on shaping trainees' behaviors, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) created the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) program to evaluate teaching institutions in six focus areas: patient safety, quality improvement, transitions in care, supervision, duty hours, and professionalism. During 2013, the ACGME visited more than 100 teaching hospitals in the United States as part of this program. According to ACGME leaders, the early findings show an overall lack of trainee engagement in the systems-based practices. Available on the Web site, the CLER Pathways to Excellence report describes discoveries from the first year of the program and provides a guide for teaching institutions to create clinical environments that support patient safety training and practices.

This Web site supports AHRQ implementation of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 by providing technical assistance and educational materials to Patient Safety Organizations. The site includes updates on the latest definitions and common formats.

This report compiles public and private data to provide insight into the quality and safety of patient care in Australian hospitals.

This article reports on the results from Joint Commission site inspections of five Boston-area hospitals.

This investigation determined that the U.S. Veterans Administration has taken steps to improve the reliability of their practitioner licensure and certification screening processes for employees and new hires but found that some weaknesses still exist.

Implementation of resident duty hours, meant to address fatigue in health care, has long been a subject of patient safety discussions. This website provides a summary of proposed changes to the current ACGME residency Common Program Requirements that shape working hours, offers rationale for the revisions.

Evaluation of provider behavior can identify problems that affect patient safety. This report analyzed data and expert interviews from four Veterans Affairs medical centers to identify weaknesses in peer review processes. Investigators found inconsistent adherence to peer review policy elements, such as timely review performance and peer review trigger development, and make recommendations to drive actions that address these issues.

The Joint Commission has traditionally focused on accreditation of health care organizations and, through its Joint Commission Resources arm, on quality improvement (QI) in areas related to its accreditation functions. In the first major initiative under the leadership of new president Dr. Mark Chassin, The Joint Commission launched this Center, which will focus on applying rigorous QI methods to improve safety in a number of challenging areas (the first three are hand hygiene, handoff communication, and preventing wrong site surgery) and disseminating the lessons from these efforts. This Web site provides more information about the Center and its goals.

This Web site offers a patient safety review program to help assess and improve safety in ambulatory obstetrics and gynecology practices.

This final rule outlines how to become a Patient Safety Organization (PSO), and supports AHRQ action to receive applications from qualified entities that wish to become PSOs. The interim guidance will remain in effect until January 19, 2009, the official activation date for the final rule.

This report further discusses the investigation of a Hepatitis C outbreak that resulted from unsafe injection practices at an endoscopy clinic.

This report shares findings from an investigation into individual and system failures that contributed to a radiologist misreading mammograms for a 2-year period.

This report reviews findings from a federal inspection indicating that Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities, while complying with basic credentialing policies, are not routinely submitting malpractice data as required to be used by the VA to inform privileging determinations.