Patient Safety Blog: Patient Safety Organization (PSO)

Parsing the Privileges - Part 2 State Protections, the PSQIA, and the Federal Common Law Privilege

Parsing the Privileges - Part 1: Attorney-Client Privilege/PSQIA

The Importance of Addressing Lab Errors: Uncovering the Causes of Mislabeled and Unlabeled Specimens

In the past 18 months, the Center for Patient Safety PSO collected nearly 500 reports of unlabeled...

Missouri Court confirms that Federal Courts will not recognize state law safety, quality and peer review privileges

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri recently issued an opinion that...

Courts Produce More Good News for PSOs

The patient safety work product privilege is a quiet corner of the room ... The statutes carve an...

Emergency Medical Services Agenda 2050. How do see the future of EMS?

The EMS Agenda 2050 “Envision the Future” Straw Man document has been released to the public for...

PSO Legal Update: A new focus on reporting

The Center for Patient Safety’s staff has been fielding a lot of questions about what information...

CPS Releases PSO Report: #CultureForward

The Center for Patient Safety, a Patient Safety Organization (CPS PSO), is pleased to present this...

QAPI: 10 Steps to Improvement

Long-term care providers face new expectations for their safety and quality work in the form of...