Becker's ASC

Patient Safety Tool: ISMP’s List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols and Dose Designations

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices has published a free, downloadable two-page list of error-prone abbreviations, symbols and dose designations. The problematic abbreviations, symbols and ...
ProPublica

The voices of patient harm

More than 1 million patients suffer harm each year in U.S. health care facilities. Often, their harm isn’t acknowledged even as they live with the consequences. ProPublica set out to capture their ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care

Suggested Citation: "Appendix D: Clinical Domains for Patient Safety." Institute of Medicine. 2004. Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi ...
Health Affairs

An Electronic Health Record–Based Real-Time Analytics Program For Patient Safety Surveillance And Improvement

Twenty years after publication of the report To Err Is Human, studies demonstrate persisting high levels of patient harm. Most patient safety measurement remains highly retrospective, relying on ...