A new proposed rule announced by CMS this week aims to address several critical lingering gaps in the nation’s efforts to improve patient safety, raise hospital quality, and increase access to...
A focus on hospital safety culture may not be a conclusive indicator of lower rates of adverse patient outcomes and patient safety, shows a recent study published in BMJ Quality and Safety.
A research...
CMS has overseen a number of significant patient safety improvements in the past few years, but the agency isn’t finished with its efforts to reduce preventable patient harm.
In a CMS blog...
A focus on patient safety improvements could potentially reduce half of all hospital-caused deaths in low-rated hospitals, according to a recent report from the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety...
