A culture shift in healthcare is needed to improve healthcare workplace safety, according to a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. She gave the Veterans Health ...

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 ...

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 ...

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This study examines the use of Red Rules in patient safety culture. The presence of a strong culture of patient safety has become a critical component in reducing medical errors. Some hospitals are ...

This study examines the correlation between a Culture of Patient Safety as measured by hospital staff surveys and actual patient harm attributed to hospital performance. It is generally accepted by ...

Jeff Surges is a board member and former CEO of RLDatix, a leading global provider of connected healthcare operations software and services. Unsafe care is a global public health issue. According to ...

Good things take time. This well-known idiom can be applied to virtually every aspect of a company’s development, including its safety culture and how safely people perform their jobs. The definition ...

When Ballad Health’s Chief Clinical Officer Amit Vashist, MD, sent quality, safety and infection prevention teams to several member hospitals’ operating rooms unannounced to assess safety culture, he ...