In this issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Moises Auron, Michelle Brooks, and Suchita Shah Sata bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Inpatient Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. Top experts address fundamental and current topics in quality of healthcare and patient safety in hospitalized patients, including discussions of the quality improvement process, high reliability organization, diagnostic errors, medication safety, and handoffs and care transitions, as well as clinical topics such as prevention of healthcare-acquired infections, pneumonia, heart failure, and more.

• Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including accreditation and health policy; artificial intelligence in QPS; diagnostic errors and cognitive reasoning; human factors engineering and behavior change management; and more
• Provides in-depth clinical reviews on inpatient quality improvement and patient safety, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
• Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews