Patient Safety Reporting Blog

Healthcare delivery happens in many and varied settings and can no longer be associated with hospital-based care alone. While this has been the case for a long time, it is only recently that the impact of higher acuity patients being treated in non-hospital settings is truly being felt. It is true...

May 6-12, 2019

It's National Nurses Week! There are over 4 Million registered nurses in the US, providing crucial and compassionate care to the populations they serve. We celebrate National Nurses Week every year in the week leading up to the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern...

March 10-16, 2019

It's Patient Safety Awareness Week! As always we remain committed to advancing safety in healthcare. If harm follows the patient beyond the traditional hospital setting, then so must patient safety. It's all about Patient Safety, Wherever Patients Are. We took a deep dive in a...

TOPIC: Why are Antibiotics so prevalent in reported safety events?

In the latest report from our Patient Safety Learning Series™, we take a look at the prevalence of Antibiotics in healthcare event reporting, and examine the factors that surround medication errors involving Antibiotics compared to...

On November 29, 2017 Clarity Group led a panel discussion on challenges and strategies in battling the opioid crisis from the varied perspectives of pharmacy, emergency medicine, and risk management.

Healthcare providers in rural America are the backbone of our healthcare system. They provide a critical safety net and care for a significant part of the population. In addition to the challenges of every healthcare provider, rural providers face unique issues and need relevant solutions.

As one of the nation's first and most trusted Patient Safety Organizations, we believe in the importance of knowledge-sharing in order to improve the quality of healthcare. For this reason, Clarity PSO regularly publishes educational reports that focus on the risk-quality-safety (RQS) issues we...

Have you read the latest issue of our beloved heathcare industry and patient safety newsletter? You'll learn about patient safety, the latest in population health and healthcare IT news, recent Clarity educational reports, including Clarity PSO's latest report, and so much more!

Join us for a free webinar on August 2, 2017 as Tom Piotrowski, RN, MSN, Executive Director of Clarity PSO, leads a free webinar examining the challenges, including error types, pathways, and potential rationales for defects in care delivery. He and his team examined over 82,000 safety events...

Have you read the latest issue of our beloved heathcare industry and patient safety newsletter, The Clarity Post? You'll learn about patient safety, readmissions, the ongoing opioid epidemic, Patient Safety Organizations, including Clarity PSO's latest report, and so much more!