Color has often been used effectively to capture attention or differentiate items, but its use in healthcare as a patient safety strategy has frequently fallen short of achieving its intended results.

GUERNEVILLE, Calif., Dec. 1 Hospitals continue to develop new and improved communications strategies so doctors, nurses and technicians can provide the best patient care. In some hospital wards speed ...

Our pharmacy is to be involved in a double-blind clinical trial that includes an intravenous (IV) medication that is colored vs IV placebo. What can we do to avoid this color differentiation and to ...

Some tubing connectors are designed to eliminate potential misconnections that can occur with luer fittings. A 24-year-old woman was nearly nine months pregnant when she was hospitalized for vomiting ...