“Anesthesia stat, 704.” With that, a team of UB health sciences students rushes in to begin administering care to a patient. The sound — recorded from the halls of Erie County Medical Center — was ...

Health professionals in Hartford, Conn., have created a program for improving patient safety in nursing homes through reduction of human error, according to a report from The Courant. The program is ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers a free TeamSTEPPS training module for primary care teams. TeamSTEPPS (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety) is a ...

Women’s Hospital of Hamad Medical Corporation will be the first in the Middle East to adopt the TeamSTEPPS training programme to enhance patient care and safety by developing teamwork capabilities and ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (Mar. 6, 2014) -- Brooke Army Medical Center Department of Nursing was recently awarded the 2013 Department of Defense Patient Safety Award for its ...

Wherever there are people, mistakes will happen. What matters is that errors are detected before they have consequences. Such skills must be trained. Patients depend on healthcare workers working well ...