To help physicians optimize the quality and safety of patient care, the American Medical Association (AMA) released a report focused on these important health care issues.  A guide to patient safety organizations (PSOs) is being offered free online to all physicians to help them participate in PSOs, a way for physicians to voluntarily report and learn from adverse safety events. 

In Dutch hospitals every year between 1,4 and 2,7 percent of the patients dies. This is shown by raw mortality rates of 2009 that have been made public by the Dutch Hospital Association (NVZ) and the Dutch Federation of University Medical Centers (NFU). 

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority data shows that healthcare clinicians' disruptuive behaviors negatively affected patient care while Pennsylvania Hospital works to reduce the number of adverse events in its facility by improving teamwork.

Occurrence of some so-called "never events" in hospitals may depend partly on unmodifiable risk factors such as patient characteristics, undermining the rationale for denying Medicare payment for their treatment, researchers said.