Making health care safer

The Annals of Internal Medicine have published a special edition reviewing the evidence supporting strategies to improve patient safety. The articles included in this issue are:

1. The top patient safety strategies that can be encouraged for adoption now promoting a culture of safety as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
2. In-facility delirium prevention programs as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
3. Patient safety strategies targeted at diagnostic errors: a systematic review 
4. Inpatient fall prevention programs as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
5. Medication reconciliation during transitions of care as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
6. Nurse–patient ratios as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
7. Preventing in-facility pressure ulcers as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
8. Rapid-response systems as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
9. Simulation exercises as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
10. Hospital-initiated transitional care interventions as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review

Read the whole issue here.