The NICU staff submits SERS reports on a wide variety of patient care safety issues such as unplanned extubations, inaccurate labeling of medications, and inaccurate labeling of laboratory specimens.

An analysis of adverse events stemming from laboratories reveals several common types of errors, according to a study published in the American Journal of Medical Quality. For this study, researchers ...

The South Carolina Hospital Association offers a free, downloadable toolkit intended to help healthcare providers prevent mislabeling of blood specimens. The Final Check toolkit was designed by SCHA ...

You'd think. But according to a team at the University of Oxford and the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, up to half the specimens in all natural history museums are mislabeled, or at least labeled ...

It may sound harsh, but a natural history collection in a museum is almost worthless if it is not properly catalogued. Anyone who has spent even a short amount of time in a natural history collection ...

We use SERS reports to monitor, identify trends, and improve care. Proposals to change practice are based on data and are discussed at monthly unit-based and hospital-wide Safety Group and ICC ...