Our March 2021 issue is now available to read and download at no charge.

Each issue features the latest evidence-based research, thoughtful commentaries and editorials, interviews with healthcare leaders and safety advocates, and powerful patient stories. Highlights this month include:

An open conversation on vaccination with an infection preventionist, a psychologist, and a former vaccine-hesitant parent of a son with autism
An interview with Wendell Potter, former insurance executive turned whistleblower, on the brokenness of U.S. healthcare and how to understand it and protect yourself
Authors share their new categorization schema for medication errors in outpatient care
Smaller incisions make surgeries safer, but there still are risks; an analyst examines the common injuries and outcomes of various types of minimally invasive surgery
An analysis of serious events related to medication reconciliation errors—and how to prevent them
Two articles covering the long and the short of patient height: why it can affect both the quality and safety of care

Patient Safety is fully open access (no subscription fees or author fees), so please consider send us your next original manuscript and sharing our journal with your colleagues, students, families, friends, and patients.

Thank you to our authors, peer reviewers, editorial board members, and Patient Safety Authority staff, who all play a part in the success of our journal and in advancing patient safety everywhere.

Together we save lives.

Patient Harm Resulting From Medication Reconciliation Process Failures: A Study of Serious Events Reported by Pennsylvania Hospitals