The quality improvement or quality assurance department within a hospital typically organizes and oversees root cause analyses (RCA), but the medical staff plays an important role as well. During RCAs, it’s important to uphold a blame-free environment so the RCA team can pinpoint exactly what...

A decade ago, if you mentioned the option of robotic surgery to patients, they may have looked at you as if you had three heads.

But today more facilities are integrating technology such as da Vinci^®, made by...