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Patient safety 'fluency' requires more than language interpreters
Today marks the end of the National Patient Safety Foundation's annual "Patient Safety Awareness Week." It's a good time to review your policies and procedures around medication safety, infection
EMR development debate focuses on standards, competition
Lest anyone think the issue has been settled, national health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal says there is a "raging debate" in scientific and policy circles about whether standards or
More 'plain language' needed on hospital report card site
The Illinois Hospital Association's (IHA) Illinois Hospitals Caring for You website and the state's Hospital Report Card site have been touted as great examples of transparency and patient safety
Experts: Medical schools aren't teaching patient safety
Rather than teaching future doctors about patient safety, teamwork and how to learn from their mistakes, medical schools throughout the U.S. continue to focus myopically on basic science and clinical
Hospital sued for alleged wrong-site brain surgery
Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center in Dearborn, Mich., and two of its doctors are being sued for allegedly performing brain surgery on the wrong side of a patient's head. The patient, who died on
