We provide measures of our performance in six major areas related to patient safety in the Women and Infants Center: Patients in the hospital often need a way to receive medication through a vein.

At the same time, an IV was also started in the patient's left arm, near the wound, but was later capped when a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) was placed in the right arm.

John Paoletti and his nursing colleagues realized something was wrong with the needles used to start patients’ IV catheters ... goal of addressing potential safety issues before patients ...