In the nursing home setting, resident falls are a good example of a typical patient safety target. If a nursing home finds that fall rates are high, a patient safety approach would examine the ...

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA — Patients and caregivers struggling with home-use medical devices have been identified as the most pressing health technology safety hazard for 2024, according to a report ...

All the details in our Health Safety stories come from publicly available Final ... In another case, they found the nursing home gave an elderly patient with dementia-related psychosis a drug with a ...

Any patients admitted ... a series of nursing home and senior care closures in recent years, as many facilities face financial strain compounded by staffing stresses and safety standards arising ...

Remote patient monitoring could revolutionize home-based healthcare by keeping some patients out of the hospital — if it can get more buy-in from patients and providers. Elara Caring ...

During routine visits, Bigham asks patients about how they store their weapons at home. "People may feel ... It's not about taking away, it's about safety and that's it," D'Orazio said.

To the Editor: The article in the July 3 issue concerning ventricular fibrillation associated with an electrically operated bed has prompted me to describe an accident of a different type that ...

And the findings are alarming. We discovered that poor communication was the sole cause of patient-safety incidents in over one in ten cases and contributed to causing incidents in one in four cases.