Safety champions who are best positioned to diffuse safety behaviors are commonly used in healthcare programs as a tactic to advance safety and quality improvement goals [...]

Clinical decision support (CDS) tools are focused on improving medical decision making. A large body of evidence supports the effectiveness of these tools to improve pro [...]

Black and white photograph of OHSU Public Safety Chief enjoying refreshments at a Department of Emergency Medicine party.

Driving a vehicle plays a vital role in an older individual's sense of independence and is often a ubiquitous aspect of modern life. However, sensory, cognitive, and musc [...]

EHRs and CPOE promise to improve the quality and safety of healthcare, but published evidence suggests the potential for harm as well. Efforts like CCHIT have emerged to [...]

This three-manuscript dissertation explored philosophically, conceptually, and empirically morally injurious experiences (MIEs) and subsequent moral injury (MI) experienc [...]

Suicide rates in America are on the rise. Emergency departments, including psychiatric emergency services, are in a unique position to encounter patients who are at high [...]

Is worker safety, patient safety? Patient and worker safety relies on leadership, safety culture and teamwork?to be effective, yet are often administratively siloed leadi [...]

December 2014 issue of the Scribe. The issue includes several articles focused on integrative medicine. Contents include: "Safety-net clinics stretched, adding physicians [...]

Confusion with elderly patients has been a clinical, nursing problem for many years. Older adults who become confused when hospitalized, or whose pre-existing, cognitive [...]