The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers a free downloadable patient safety culture assessment tools for hospitals. Healthcare organizations can use these survey assessment tools to: • ...

The American College of Healthcare Executives and the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute are collaborating to create a “playbook” to support leaders in their efforts to build ...

Patient safety culture in healthcare refers to the collective commitment by clinicians, managers and supporting staff to prioritise patient safety through ethical practices, open communication and ...

With the healthcare industry turning away from the traditional fee-for-service model to pay-for-performance and value-based purchasing, hospitals and health systems are feeling pressure now more than ...

When patient safety concerns arise in a non-punitive workplace, the emphasis is on improving processes rather than blaming individuals. Establishing a non-punitive workplace culture is a cornerstone ...

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 ...

This study examined the relationship between the departmental work environment and patient safety outcomes to determine if there were particular subcomponents of a department’s work environment that ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2011 User Comparative Database Report, which, based on data from 1,032 U.S. hospitals, ...

Objective: This study’s objective was to assess the patient safety culture in a large, integrated health delivery system’s pharmacy department to allow for benchmarking with other health systems.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nine months after the ransomware attack on the health payment processing company Change Healthcare, the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background:The safety and quality of care provided to nursing home residents is a significant concern. Little is known whether fostering ...

A review said staffing shortages also contributed to delays and patients being harmed at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.