Category: Quality

Mount Sinai professor: Why Medicare should pay physicians more for treating sickest patients

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Health websites riddled with false info about preeclampsia, ProPublica finds

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US measles cases on track to surpass 2017 figures: 3 things to know

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8 ways hospitals are cutting readmissions

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How CoxHealth uses hand scanners to prevent medical errors

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Nurses less likely than physicians to speak up to colleagues with poor hand hygiene

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International Patient Safety Day.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

September 17, 2018; Coalition for Patient Safety, German Federal Ministry of Health, Berlin, DE.

Healthcare Design Expo & Conference.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Center for Health Design. November 10–13, 2018; Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, AZ.

Connecting perspectives on quality and safety: patient-level linkage of incident, adverse event and complaint data.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

de Vos MS, Hamming JF, Chua-Hendriks JJC, Marang-van de Mheen PJ. BMJ Qual Saf. 2018 Jul 21; [Epub ahead of print].

Perspectives on patient and family engagement with reduction in harm: the forgotten voice.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Schenk EC, Bryant RA, Van Son CR, Odom-Maryon T. J Nurs Care Qual. 2018 Jun 8; [Epub ahead of print].