Patient Identification: Strategies and Best Practices
Overview Correctly identifying patients and matching patients to their intended treatment is fundamental to safe care. Patient identification is such […]
9 Essential Patient Safety Tools For Quality Improvement in Healthcare
Introduction Simple and easy-to-use tools can bring surprising insights and results. Most healthcare professionals, especially safety and quality officers, are
Incident Reporting in Nursing Homes: A Closer Look
The nursing home sector plays a vital role in caring for the aged and some of the most vulnerable groups
Incident Categorization in Healthcare: What You Need to Know
There are different ways to categorize incidents in healthcare settings. Incident categorization can be based on various criteria such as
Online Incident Reporting: Key to Fostering Open Communication
Open communication is critical in fostering a safety culture and a positive work environment in healthcare. In this blog, we
Key Findings: Safety Incident Reporting in Care Homes
In this blog, we are sharing the key findings on safety incident reporting in care homes in a paper published
Fall Prevention in Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Falls are a Growing Problem Falls occur at all ages but are common among older people. According to some studies,
Burden of Harm to the Patients
In this blog post, we are sharing the key messages on the burden of unsafe care taken from the Global
Five Common RCA Mistakes
Is your RCA Process Effective? Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a systematic and robust investigation process to identify the underlying causes
The importance of near miss reporting in healthcare
You didn’t see it coming Imagine your hospital had just encountered its first case of wrong-site surgery. As the Quality
Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety: Get it Right, Make it Safe!
This year’s World Patient Safety Day theme is “Improving diagnosis for patient safety” with the slogan “Get it right, make
Strategies to Improve Medication Safety and Reduce Harm in Polypharmacy
In our previous blog, we discussed high-risk situations arising from look-alike, sound-alike (LASA) medications and high-alert medications which can cause significant medication