In addition to our newly designed site, our journal now offers XML versions of articles. Stay tuned for our new spring issue in the next few weeks ..read more

International Infection Prevention Week celebrates the importance of infection prevention and the role of IPs in protecting public health. Read these articles to learn more ..read more

National Time Out Day reminds surgical teams to pause before operations to confirm the correct patient, procedure, and site, as well as perform other important safety checks ..read more

Join us on Sept. 28 at noon EST for a conversation about the peer review process with PATIENT SAFETY editors and an author/peer reviewer, Zane Wolf, PhD, RN ..read more

World Sepsis Day is a global effort each year to raise awareness of sepsis—how to recognize and prevent it. Read these articles to learn more ..read more

Peer Review Week (Sept. 25–29) is a worldwide event celebrating the essential role of peer review in scholarly communications ..read more

As the journal of the Patient Safety Authority, committed to the vision of “safe healthcare for all patients,” Patient Safety (ISSN 2689-0143) is fully open access and highlights original research, advanced analytics, and hot topics in healthcare. The mission of this publication is to inform and advise clinicians, administrators, and patients on preventing harm and improving safety, by providing evidence-based, original research; editorials addressing current and sometimes controversial topics; and analyses from one of the world’s largest adverse event reporting databases. We invite you to sub ..read more

Background: Inadequate hand-off communication from hospital to skilled nursing facility (SNF) hinders SNF nurses’ ability to prepare for specific patient needs, including prescriptions for critical medications, such as controlled medications and intravenous (IV) antibiotics, resulting in delayed medication administration. This project aims to improve hand-off communication from hospital to SNF by utilizing a standardized hand-off tool. This project was conducted in an inpatient, 50-bed, post-hospital skilled nursing care unit of a local SNF. The participants included all 32 staff nurses emplo ..read more

In the article we published in June 2022 on patient safety trends in 2021, reporting rates and fall rates for 2021 were calculated based on Q1 and Q2 only, as denominator data for Q3 and Q4 were not yet available. Given that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted reliable forecasting in healthcare, we did not forecast rates for Q3 and Q4 in our June 2022 article. This data snapshot provides the complete rates for 2021 now that we have obtained all relevant data ..read more

Emergence delirium (ED) is a temporary condition associated with a patient awakening from an anesthetic and/or adjunct agent (e.g., sedatives and analgesics). During the condition, patients risk harming themselves or staff by engaging in dangerous behavior, which may include thrashing, kicking, punching, and attempting to exit the bed/table. A multidisciplinary team at Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) developed and implemented a multicomponent intervention to reduce the severity and occurrence of ED. The intervention consists of a training component and 21 clinical compone ..read more