Despite decades of patient safety initiatives, preventable harm remains prevalent in health care. This article posits that a ...
Our research promotes practices, products, and policies that address occupational safety, environmental safety, and patient safety in both home care and hospitals. The Safe Home Care Project is ...
Amid the safety debate about expanding roles for nonphysician health professionals, a new study shows that allowing nurse anesthetists to provide anesthesia services without supervision from a doctor ...
Behavioral health care has been slow to take up robust efforts to improve patient safety. This lag is especially apparent in inpatient psychiatry, where there is risk for physical and psychological ...
Thousands of older Americans are in adult day services that provide safe, stimulating places for those who have physical or cognitive disabilities and also give respite to their caregiver. While adult ...
The UMass Lowell Safe Home Care Program (grant number R01OH008229) has been funded since 2004 by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The earliest research focused on ...