Culture of safety in healthcare refers to the attitudes and beliefs of an organization's staff that ultimately drive their behavior in regards to the[...]

The Healthcare Quality Competency Framework is a set of guidelines, standards, and definitions of the proficiencies and competencies that[...]

Smartsourcing is a business strategy of shifting towards partnerships that focus an organization on its core competencies and core mission, and to then shed the processes[...]

The Survey on Patient Safety Culture^TM (SOPS^®), developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, helps hospitals, medical offices, and other healthcare organizations[...]

Fall prevention in healthcare involves managing patients' underlying risk factors and optimizing their environment to reduce the likelihood of an unplanned descent to the[...]

Voluntary Patient Safety Event Reporting is a method of collecting details and information about an incident, near miss or unsafe condition in[...]

The American College of Cardiology’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) is a suite of data registries related to cardiovascular care that helps hospitals, health systems,[...]

Preoccupation with failure in healthcare refers to the need for continuous attention to anomalies that could be[...]

High reliability organizations are organizations that operate in complex, high-hazard environments for extended periods without serious accidents or[...]