2025 ARCHIVE
MARCH 2025 -
In this month's newsletter, learn about enhancing safety of dofetilide administration and mitigating the risk of ventricular arrhythmias. Also: find out about PSA’s upcoming free webinars, read an example of how reporting a safety event inspired change, and see what's happening in patient safety around the commonwealth.
FEBRUARY 2025 -
Our monthly newsletters keep you up to date about what’s happening at the Patient Safety Authority, in Pennsylvania facilities, and in healthcare today. In this edition, learn about the risks associated with routine colonoscopies that patients should be aware of. Also: find out about PSA’s upcoming free webinars, check out our new eLearning course, read an example of how reporting a safety event inspired change, and more.
JANUARY 2025 -
An important reminder for PA-PSRS users reporting issues and discrepancies involving controlled substances, an article highlighting the risks of forgotten tourniquets, upcoming webinars, and a story about how event reports helped solve a systems issue.
2024 ARCHIVE
DECEMBER 2024 -
Pica Behavior in Acute Care Hospitals: Strategies for Screening and Mitigating Risk of Harm
NOVEMBER 2024 -
Strategies for safe dispensing and administration of nitroglycerin tablets to prevent an unintended overdose
OCTOBER 2024 -
Mpox: An Update on the New Public Health Emergency
SEPTEMBER 2024 -
Enhancing the Process of Collecting Patient Medical and Surgical History: Navigating Sensitive Topics and Evolving Practices
AUGUST 2024 -
Wrong-Route Errors Involving Haloperidol: Beware of Its Unintended Intravenous Administration
JULY 2024 -
Identifying Racial Disparities Based on PA-PSRS Maternal Complication Reports: Limited Demographic Data Results in Inconclusive Findings
JUNE 2024 -
Technology in healthcare has expanded substantially over the last two decades.
MAY 2024 -
Transfusion-Associated Circulatory Overload (TACO):Strategies to Mitigate the Risk of Harm.
APRIL 2024 -
What to Know About Glacial Acetic Acid: Stop Using It
MARCH 2024 -
This monthly newsletter keeps you up to date about what’s happening at the Patient Safety Authority, Pennsylvania facilities, and in healthcare today. In this edition we share information, tools, and resources everyone can use to help keep patients safe.
JANUARY 2024 -
This monthly newsletter keeps you up to date about what’s happening at the Patient Safety Authority, Pennsylvania facilities, and in healthcare today. As we step into the new year, in this edition we provide our 2023 year in review, highlighting the information, tools, and resources we developed and shared to help you in your work and help keep patients safe.
2023 ARCHIVE
JULY 2023 -
Our quarterly special editions feature articles, stories, interviews, and more from our journal, Patient Safety. In this newsletter you will read how artificial intelligence could benefit healthcare, best practices for visual display design, stories of patient safety heroes, and more.
JUNE 2023 -
Our quarterly special editions feature articles, stories, interviews, and more from our journal, Patient Safety. In this newsletter you will read about change in healthcare: how event reports inspire change, facilities that successfully implemented change, new research to inform change, and what is needed to change patient safety culture.
FEBRUARY 2023 -
This newsletter features “CORRECT” Classification and Reporting of a Patient Safety Event, and Heart Stories from Patient Safety.
JANUARY 2023 -
This special edition of our newsletter features articles, stories, interviews, and more from the most recent issue of our journal,
Patient Safety, as well as details about our upcoming events and webinars.
2022 ARCHIVE
DECEMBER 2022 -
This newsletter is now biweekly, to better deliver timely information, tools, and resources you can use to keep patients and staff safe. Each issue also includes details about our upcoming events and webinars, as well as stories that highlight the power of event reporting in informing and inspiring change throughout healthcare systems and facilities.
NOVEMBER 2022 -
This newsletter is now biweekly, to better deliver timely information, tools, and resources you can use to keep patients and staff safe. Each issue also includes details about our upcoming events and webinars, as well as stories that highlight the power of event reporting in informing and inspiring change throughout healthcare systems and facilities.
OCTOBER 2022 -
Pennsylvania hospitals are required to report adverse events, but do you know why it’s so important? Event reports can be the first indication of underlying problems, regardless of whether harm occurs. They can be tools to trigger widespread change facilitywide—or even nationwide.
SEPTEMBER 2022 -
Our quarterly special editions feature articles, stories, interviews, and more from our journal, Patient Safety. In this issue you will read about the risk of using wheelchairs incorrectly, how to improve safety culture at your organization, ways to reduced delirium in hospitalized patients, why health information technology may increase the risk of duplicate medication orders, what patient safety looks like in Canada—and much more.
AUGUST 2022 -
The dangers of purchasing drugs from online pharmacies, women resorting to cannabis for menopause relief, missing a monkeypox diagnosis, and more.
JULY 2022 -
Testing to reduce infections during transplants, getting an accurate reading on your pulse oximeter, looking at 10 conditions doctors often miss, and more.
JUNE 2022 -
Our quarterly special editions feature articles, stories, interviews, and more from our journal, Patient Safety. In this issue you will read about the impact of visitors on patient safety, ways to keep pediatric patients safe, determining potential harm from delayed communication, a tool to prevent postop pneumonia, and a review of safety events reported in 2021.
MAY 2022 -
Looking at ways to increase safe disposal of medication, investigating the current baby formula shortage, facing the challenges of an autism misdiagnosis, and more.
APRIL 2022 -
Highlighting the hidden long-term risks of surgery, how Colorado is working to improve health equity, facilitating early detection of ovarian cancer, and more.
MARCH 2022 -
Our quarterly special editions feature articles, stories, interviews, and more from our journal,
Patient Safety. In this issue you will read about improving physician event reporting, teaching empathy 101, tracheostomy and laryngectomy events, and wrong-site surgery—it really does happen.
FEBRUARY 2022 -
Highlighting the importance of stronger warnings on medications, tracking the way misinformation spreads online, treating brain conditions through art and music, and more.
JANUARY 2022 -
This month’s newsletter features research, reviews, interviews, and perspectives from a special issue of our award-winning journal,
Patient Safety, dedicated to pharmacy education and practice. You will read about how sharing stories about medication errors helps prevent them from happening again, how to build a culture of safety in early training, ways to develop better habits in your life and work, and more.
2021 ARCHIVE
DECEMBER 2021 -
Our quarterly special editions feature articles, stories, interviews, and more from our journal,
Patient Safety. In this issue you will read about one nurses’s traumatic experience of caring for patients during the pandemic, atrial fibrillation and surgical cancellations, and how being “activated” may save your life.
NOVEMBER 2021 -
Lowering the risk of errors when it comes to your pet’s medications, why some coronavirus variants are more contagious than others, ways to navigate post-pandemic life, and more
OCTOBER 2021 -
Are medications from an online pharmacy as safe as those from your local pharmacy? How do language barriers relate to hospital readmission? Read these stories and more.
SEPTEMBER 2021 -
Our quarterly special editions feature articles, stories, interviews, and more from our journal,
Patient Safety. In this issue you will read about simulation and live training, a study that examines the experiences of home care workers during COVID-19, and WellSpan’s Central Alert Team: a sepsis game changer.
AUGUST 2021 -
Smartphones are addictive but they also offer a solution, a reminder before you try out the latest online “life hack,” new concerns for counterfeit HIV medications in pharmacies, and more
JULY 2021 -
Having better access to your electronic health records may imporve care, tackling antimicrobial resistance, following the life cycle of a COVID-19 vaccine lie, and more
JUNE 2021 -
Our quarterly special editions feature articles, stories, interviews, and more from our journal, Patient Safety. In this issue you will read our annual analysis from the nation’s largest event reporting database, the race against superbugs, and surgical safety huddles: a novel approach with big results
MAY 2021 -
Lowering the risk of errors when it comes to your pet’s medications, why some coronavirus variants are more contagious than others, ways to navigate post-pandemic life, and more.
APRIL 2021 -
A look at the ethical challenges with new stem cell research, growing concerns over antimicrobial resistance, checking on your mental health after a year into the pandemic, and more.
MARCH 2021 -
Our quarterly special editions feature articles, stories, interviews, and more from our journal,
Patient Safety. In this issue you will read about the brokenness of U.S. healthcare, minimally invasive surgery still carrying risks, and a deep dive into outpatient medication safety.
FEBRUARY 2021 -
A look at the struggle to increase the supply of COVID-19 vaccines, the importance of continuing to wear masks even after being inoculated, how mental health is tied to aging, and more
JANUARY 2021 -
A look at how many must overcome needle phobia to help protect others, environmental service teams and the important part they play in preventing infection, how a long year of restrictions and staying safe at home has affected our mental health, and more
2020 ARCHIVE
DECEMBER 2020 -
Our quarterly special editions feature articles, stories, interviews, and more from our journal,
Patient Safety. In this issue you will read about sepsis in the time of COVID-19, how to overcome racial disparities in healthcare, and how making a wrong-patient error is easier than you think.
NOVEMBER 2020 -
An in-depth look at signs of pandemic fatigue and how to stay vigilant, how wearing a mask protects the wearer in addition to other people, how one nursing home worker refuses to retire during the COVID-19 crisis, and more
OCTOBER 2020 -
How to persuade those who won’t want to take the coming COVID-19 vaccine, dental findings that uphold calls to continue routine dental care amid the pandemic, how more sleep and family time—and less social media—may have helped teens during quarantine, and more
SEPTEMBER 2020 -
Our quarterly special editions feature articles, stories, interviews, and more from our journal,Patient Safety. In this issue you will read about creating a National Action Plan for Patient Safety, living life after being infected with COVID-19, innovative ways to prevent falls, and how to mitigate spreading respiratory infections like influenza and pneumonia..
AUGUST 2020 -
An in-depth look into the immune system, the contact-tracing process trying to keep COVID-19 from spreading, a look at the steps being taken to combat superbugs, and more
JULY 2020 -
A deeper look into how vaccines are made, providers prescribing highly addictive pain medications for mild conditions, service workers struggling with anti-maskers, and more
JUNE 2020 -
Our quarterly special editions feature articles, stories, interviews, and more from our journal, Patient Safety. In this issue you will read about healthcare professionals experiencing burnout during this pandemic; one woman’s story of how hospice not only improved, but also extended her mother’s life; and read evidence-based research and data analyses that will help you prevent harm and improve patient safety.
MAY 2020 -
A chilling look at the long-term impact COVID-19 has on patients, the unexpected relationship between the pandemic and the opioid crisis, and more
APRIL 2020 -
Medical workers on the frontline fighting COVID-19 are suffering from more than just PPE shortages, black Americans are finding themselves more susceptible to COVID-19, and more.
MARCH 2020 -
How one patient learned the importance of speaking up for her own health; follow a mother's painful journey from losing a child to becoming a patient safety advocate; and evidence-based research and data analyses that will help you prevent harm and imporve patient safety
FEBRUARY 2020 -
The number of people with coronavirus is rising and so are efforts to contain it, medical companies are targeting you right now with online ads, caregivers are the worst at caring for themselves, and more
JANUARY 2020 -
A rural town loses its only hospital, restricting opioids in an ER leaves some patients in pain, the bleak future we face with fewer doctors and effective antibiotics, and more.
2019 ARCHIVE
DECEMBER 2019 -
You will hear how a tragic healthcare journey led to positive change, learn about the Camden Coalition’s efforts to build a field of complex care, and arm yourself with evidence-based research and data analyses that will help you prevent harm and improve patient safety.
NOVEMBER 2019 -
Troubling trends in clinician burnout, a new treatment for Alzheimer’s, school nurses bring telehealth to their students, and how measles can reset your immune system.
OCTOBER 2019 -
New research on the lasting impact of bullying, the latest info on vaping-related lung injuries, tools to help patients communicate better with their care team, and more.
SEPTEMBER 2019 -
How Pennsylvania is fighting the opioid crisis, learn why health literacy is important to patient safety, and arm yourself with evidence-based research and data analyses that will help you prevent harm and improve patient safety.
AUGUST 2019 -
Breaking down Medicare, tips on keeping everyone safe from violence at long-term care facilities, using artificial intelligence to predict and prevent sepsis, and more
JULY 2019 -
How climate change may affect your health, why we need new defenses against C. diff and UTIs, and why some researchers focus on preventing cancer rather than curing it
JUNE 2019 -
What happens when sperm banks deliver the wrong babies, how unicorn horns are helping doctors study ADHD, and new research shows sepsis survivors are at higher risk of death.
MAY 2019 -
The importance of taking time to get to know your patients, the role robots can play in healthcare, digging deep for new antibiotics, anesthesia goes green, and more!
APRIL 2019 -
New tools to fight stubborn superbugs, rethinking medical missions, updated FDA guidelines on mammograms, and how to get kids excited about having an operation.
MARCH 2019 -
Technology’s impact on patient safety: what Google searches reveal about your health, everyone’s role in improving EHRs, and rising cyberattacks against hospitals. What you need to know this month.
FEBRUARY 2019 -
Who should make medical decisions for children, when should a surgeon hang up their scalpel, and where do we draw the line between just culture and accountability? What you need to know this month.
JANUARY 2019 -
Facebook is screening users for suicide risk, 70 percent of electronic medical records contain wrong information, and a jazz musician undergoes surgery while awake. What you need to know this month.
