A new report from the Institute of Medicine recommends 100 health topics
that should get priority attention and funding from a new national
research effort to identify which health care services work best. It
also spells out actions and resources needed to ensure that this
comparative effectiveness research initiative will be a sustained
effort with a continuous process for updating priorities as needed and
that the results are put into clinical practice.

Hospital discharge is a time during which
patients and families are at their most vulnerable. There is so much
information they need to know, just when they may be least able to
absorb, remember and act on it.

To identify solutions of nursing care that will
not only address many of the issues facing the profession but also
transform the way Americans receive health care, the IOM and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have
launched a new Initiative on the Future of Nursing.

Lucian Leape, MD, Adjunct Professor of Health
Policy, Harvard School of Public Health and pediatric surgeon has been
selected as the recipient of the inaugural Florence Nightingale and Dr.
E. Codman Patient Safety Day Award. The award is being given in
conjunction with this year’s 9th annual Patient Safety Day and the 10th
year anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s groundbreaking patient
safety in America report to Congress.

The American Hospital Association announces the
2009-2010 class of Patient Safety Leadership Fellows. Thirteen
individuals have been selected to participate in this year’s fellowship
class.