In October 2007, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston set the goal of eliminating all preventable harm. The hospital’s board and quality leaders had went on a quality- and patient ...

After a decade of trucking companies complaining that the government unfairly counted crashes against their safety record that were not their fault, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on July 31 proposed to make permanent a demonstration program that documents on a driver's or motor carrier’s safety profile instances when a crash ...

Transport Topics reports in its April 3 article titled “Crash Not Your Fault? FMCSA Says Soon It Won’t Hurt Your CSA Score” that the agency intends to identify no-fault crashes beginning in August.

Having a crash determined to be non-preventable, meaning at its essence that the driver of the truck did everything practicable to avoid the crash and/or couldn’t possibly have done so, in the Federal ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing to again broaden the definition of crashes that it includes in its Crash Preventability Determination Program. That program was developed ...

Are oncology readmissions preventable? If so, what resources and changes in practice or culture would be required to reduce readmissions? Three independent reviewers analyzed 72 hospital readmissions ...

Since August 2017, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has allowed motor carriers to use its DataQs system to submit crashes for evaluation of whether the crashes were preventable or not.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on July 31 proposed a permanent crash preventability determination program to gain additional data to ...

Ever watch a basketball game and notice the player who sits on the offensive side of the court looking for easy baskets? Basketball, soccer, or even hockey fans may recall instances of cherry-picking ...

To develop a descriptive model of preventability for maternal morbidity and mortality that can be used in quality assurance and morbidity and mortality review processes. This descriptive study was ...

Trucking companies and their counsel have struggled to decide whether a carrier should conduct a preventability determination following an accident. Assessing how an accident happened and providing ...