Harm and the potential for harm from medical care is pervasive and well-documented. Much of the safety literature has historically focused on physical harm, but the Agency for Healthcare Research and ...

A hospital’s patient safety initiatives are only as effective as the tools used to track and analyze incidents. Despite significant progress over the past two decades following the 2005 Patient Safety ...

The Safety Event Reporting System (SERS) is an online reporting system for incident reporting. The neonatal intensive care unit at Children's Hospital Boston uses the reports from these events, along ...

A recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) study revealed a startling statistic: U.S. hospitals are missing approximately half of all patient harm events. While this figure undoubtedly represents a ...

‘Focus on HARM’ initiative to refresh ‘Never Events’ to reflect the full range of today’s care delivery settings and develop consensus on reporting standards The lack of reliable, consistent, ...

Hospitals’ incident reporting systems are missing about half of Medicare patient harm events and even more infrequently investigating those events or reporting them to the government, according to a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s National Healthcare Safety Network offers a free, downloadable patient safety monthly reporting plan. The monthly reporting plan was designed to help ...

Paul H. O’Neill, former secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush and a former CEO of Alcoa, called on President Barack Obama to mandate daily patient safety event reporting by ...

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America published “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” — an investigation into the prevalence of medical errors ...

Health system leaders have built increasingly sophisticated infrastructure for tracking and improving patient safety outcomes. Yet, a visibility gap remains that data alone can’t close: the near ...

Paul H. O’Neill, former secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush and a former CEO of Alcoa, suggested President Barack Obama require hospitals to report patient safety events daily in ...