According to research from Boston Children’s Hospital, a new trigger tool that can retrospectively identify adverse events could help provide safer pediatric hospital care. The Center of Excellence ...

A new trigger tool can help identify adverse events in pediatric inpatients, according to a new study published in Pediatrics. Efforts to advance patient safety have been hampered by a lack of high ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement updated and released its second edition of the global trigger tool. The global trigger tool can be used to measure the frequency of adverse events and ...

Although patient safety is a priority in oncology, few tools measure adverse events (AEs) beyond treatment-related toxicities. The study objective was to assemble a set of clinical triggers in the ...

In the 10 years since publication of the Institute of Medicine's report To Err Is Human, extensive efforts have been undertaken to improve patient safety. The success of these efforts remains unclear.

Although patient safety is a priority in oncology, few tools measure adverse events (AEs) beyond treatment-related toxicities. The study objective was to assemble a set of clinical triggers in the ...