Patient Safety Awareness Week 2025
Posted: March 4, 2025The entire house of medicine will be observing Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW) next week, March 9-15, 2025. This is an opportunity to bring attention to safety initiatives, acknowledge staff leading safety advances and celebrate accomplishments in quality improvement.
It’s a Celebration: One Practice’s Activities for Patient Safety Awareness Week
Posted: February 21, 2023March 12-18 marks National Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW), an opportunity for health care organizations to celebrate the important work being done every day to improve patient and staff safety and a platform to promote awareness. Learn how the Department of Radiation Oncology at Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center uses PSAW as a way to reinforce their strong safety culture.
2021 Safety Error Reporting Trends. Noise or Cause for Concern?
Posted: April 12, 2022RO-ILS: Radiation Oncology Incident Learning System® releases regular reports and education to the radiation oncology community based on safety events and errors submitted by participating U.S. practices.
2021 Safety Error Reporting Trends - Noise or Cause for Concern?
Posted: April 12, 2022RO-ILS: Radiation Oncology Incident Learning System® releases regular reports and education to the radiation oncology community based on safety events and errors submitted by participating U.S. practices. Aggregate data trends held steady over the past eight years, with expected fluctuations associated with data element changes (e.g., when a data element became required, new answer options were added). That was, until now. The RO-ILS Q4 2021 Aggregate Data Report indicates a striking new trend in 2021 related to the workflow step in which events occurred.
Patient Safety Awareness Week for Radiation Oncology
Posted: March 15, 2022Medical physicist, Eric Ford, PhD, and radiation oncologists, Sue Evans, MD, and Jean Wright, MD, are well known contributors to the topic of quality and safety within radiation oncology. In light of the upcoming PSAW, these leaders recently discussed quality and safety initiatives that resonate with them, including incident learning, accreditation and the importance of safety culture.
