The modern patient safety field was built on a foundation of “systems thinking,” namely, that we should avoid assigning individual blame for errors, instead focusing on identifying and fixing ...

The term for a patient who lists their questions was likely coined in the late 19th century in the clinic of Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière. Known as la maladie du petit papier, or the illness ...

Diagnostic errors, for the third consecutive year, led the top 10 patient safety concerns this year, according to the annual report by the ECRI Institute, an independent, nonprofit global group ...

Becker’s Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control finds and is provided with a wide range of downloadable tools and resources designed to help healthcare providers improve the quality of ...

Staff shortages and workers' mental health are top patient safety concerns that health system executives must tackle, according to ECRI's annual Top Ten Patient Safety Concerns for 2022. The report ...