A free checklist to prevent patient harm from errors related to patient-controlled analgesia pumps is available from the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety. The PCA Safety Checklist ...

Long-time patient safety advocate Tejal Gandhi, MD, has seen the U.S. health system improve when it comes to patient safety over the past 15 to 20 years. But it's harder to nail down just how fast, ...

Project Check offers a free, downloadable checklist designed to help healthcare providers and organizations build a sustainable and effective patient safety checklist. The checklist for checklists was ...

The National Transitions of Care Coalition Advisory Task Force has published a free, downloadable transitions of care checklist. This checklist provides a detailed description of effective patient ...

Checklists may be a practical and efficient way to improve patient safety in the dental office. Two safety experts explained why in the July issue of the Journal of the California Dental Association.

Just as checklists have become popular in healthcare to improve patient safety, such a resource can also help physicians better connect with patients, according to a Huffington Post article.

A free patient/family discharge planning checklist is available from the Society of Hospital Medicine. The checklist is designed to help patients prepare for their transition from the hospital to home ...

Dr. Peter Pronovost, whose accomplishments include inventing a patient-safety checklist that’s now used to prevent infection at health care facilities across the country, has moved into the chief ...

An estimated 160,000 lives are lost each year from avoidable medical errors in hospitals. Safety statistics are improving. The number of avoidable hospital deaths in 2016 was far higher, a total of ...

Does bigger mean better when it comes to hospital safety? A new grading of U.S. hospitals from the patient safety organization Leapfrog Group suggests hospitals that get high marks on limiting ...

What does it take to transform an entire health system into a national leader in patient safety? Hartford HealthCare didn’t just ask the question — they answered it.