News

August 2, 2010
Pascal Metrics Welcomes Jim Conway to Leadership Team as Principal
Conway to head Pascal Metrics' newly formed Governance & Leadership Group
Press Release

July 2010
Chest. 2010 Jul;138(1):171-8.
Responsibility for quality improvement and patient safety: hospital board and medical staff leadership challenges.
Goeschel CA, Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ.

June 24, 2010
Pascal Metrics Scientists to Present at AcademyHealth Research Meeting
Pascal's Applied Science Group Links Patient Safety Culture and Malpractice Risk
Press Release

March 31, 2010
BioMed Central Health Serv Research. 2010; 10:85
Patient safety culture lives in departments and wards: Multilevel partitioning of variance in patient safety culture
Ellen Deilkas & Dag Hofoss

March 16, 2010
The Wall Street Journal
New Focus on Averting Errors: Hospital Culture
Laura Landro

March 11, 2010
The New York Times
Learning to Keep Patients Safe in a Culture of Fear
Pauline W. Chen, M.D.

March 2010
Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General
Adverse Events in Hospitals: Methods For Identifying Events
Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General

January 25, 2010
The New York Times
Patient Safety: Conversation to Curriculum
Daniel Blumenthal & Ishani Ganguli

December 13, 2009
The New York Times
A Breath of Fresh Air for Health Care
Allison Arieff

December 1, 2009
The Wall Street Journal
Safety Guru: 'Health IT Is Harder Than It Looks'
Jacob Goldstein

November 23, 2009
The Wall Street Journal
Nine Percent of Surgeons Have Made 'Major' Errors Recently
Jacob Goldstein

November 16, 2009
The New York Times
Checking the Right Boxes, but Failing the Patient
Dena Rifkin, M.D.

October 28, 2009
San Francisco Chronicle
Prescription for Success: Don't Bother Nurses
Victoria Colliver

October 21, 2009
Natural News
Medical Errors Still Common in U.S. Hospitals
David Gutierrez

October 1, 2009
The Wall Street Journal
Safety Gurus: Penalize Doctors Who Don't Follow the Rules
Laura Landro

September 10, 2009
The New York Times
A Hospital Hand-Washing Project to Save Lives and Money
Kevin Sack

April 8, 2009
The Wall Street Journal
Why 'Quality' Care Is Dangerous
Jerome Groopman & Pamela Hartzband

January 2009
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2009 January; 10(1):11-20. Epub 2008 September 25.
Certified nursing assistants' perceptions of nursing home patient safety culture: is there a relationship to clinical outcomes?
Bonner AF, Castle NG, Men A, Handler SM.

December 2, 2008
Pascal Metrics Announces Patient Safety Culture & Risk Management Offering
Changes Name from Lotus Forum and Expands Healthcare's Leading Solution
Press Release

December 2, 2008
The New York Times
Expert Panel Seeks Changes in Training
Tara Parker-Pope

July 9, 2008
The Joint Commission
Behaviors that undermine a culture of safety
Sentinel Event Alert

March 10, 2008
Forbes Magazine
Bad Medicine
David Whelan

December 10, 2007
The New Yorker
The Checklist: If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?
Gawande, Atul

August 21, 2007
New York Times
Not Paying for Medical Errors
Editorial

August 19, 2007
New York Times
Medicare Says It Won't Cover Hospital Errors
Robert Pear

April 2, 2007
Washington Post
U.S. Hospital Errors Continue to Rise
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