In 2009, the National Patient Safety Foundation's Lucian Leape Institute (LLI) published a
paper identifying five areas of healthcare that require system-level attention and action to …

Multiple institutions identify communication and shift-to-shift handoffs as a source of clinical
errors. Conducting handoffs at the bedside has been proposed as a potential solution to …

The Institute of Medicine's To Err Is Human, published in 1999, represented a watershed
moment for the US health care system. The report dramatically raised the profile of patient …

Health care professionals typically take great pride and exert painstaking effort to meet
patient needs and provide the best possible care. Unfortunately, too often, this diligence and …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Iatrogenesis often results from performance
deficiencies among medical team members. Team-targeted rudeness may underlie such …

Importance Children of parents expressing limited comfort with English (LCE) or limited
English proficiency may be at increased risk of adverse events (harms due to medical care) …

Since its publication in 2008, SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting
Excellence) has contributed to the completeness and transparency of reporting of quality …

Objective To determine whether medical errors, family experience, and communication
processes improved after implementation of an intervention to standardize the structure of …

The COVID-19 pandemic has suddenly challenged many healthcare systems. To respond to
the crisis, these systems have had to reorganize instantly, with little time to reflect on the …

Importance Although physician concerns about medical malpractice are substantial, national
data are lacking on the rate of claims paid on behalf of US physicians by specialty. Objective …