Patient safety: News and podcasts

Health systems across the country continuously strive to make Canadian health care safer. Learn how we help these efforts through an interview with Yana Gurevich, manager of Health Indicators and Client Support, and Mélanie Josée Davidson, director of…

Read about the NSIR text field review, timeliness of critical incident reporting to NSIR, the release of CPQR’s summer 2019 NSIR-RT bulletin and ISMP Canada’s safety bulletins.

Read about critical incident reporting to NSIR, NSIR-RT incidents with problem type “other” and ISMP Canada’s safety bulletins.

Read about the collection of technology-related incidents in NSIR, advances in understanding brachytherapy-related incidents and NSIR system updates.

Read about patients and families as partners in patient safety, data transfer from local systems to NSIR-RT and ISMP Canada’s safety bulletins.

Read about drug use and medication incidents among seniors in Canada, NSIR’s 50,000th medication incident milestone and the launch of CPQR’s NSIR-RT bulletin.

Read about updates to NSIR-RT and ISMP Canada’s recent safety bulletins.

Read about updates to the analytical tool and NSIR-RT, infusion pump incidents, data quality when submitting omitted dose incidents and ISMP Canada’s safety bulletins.

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