TOOLS & RESOURCES - Patient Safety
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Patient Safety Network (PSNet)
A new national web-based resource featuring the latest news and essential resources on patient safety. The site offers weekly updates of patient safety literature, news, tools, and meetings (“What’s New”), and a vast set of carefully annotated links to important research and other information on patient safety (“The Collection”).
Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care: Institute of Medicine report on health care data standards
Patient Safety Challenge Grants
Patient Safety Improvement Corps
Patient Safety Research in ProgressAdvances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation
AHRQ Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety
AHRQ's Patient Safety Initiative: Building Foundations, Reducing Risk: Interim Report to the Senate Committee on AppropriationsWeb Chat Transcript: Patient Safety Research
Patient Safety E-newsletter Archives
Patient Safety Task Force
Fact Sheet: Patient Safety Task Force
Proposal for New Federal Patient Safety Data System
Fact Sheet: Patient Safety Reporting Systems and Research in HHS
Final Agenda: National Summit on Patient Safety Data
Participant List: National Summit on Patient Safety Data
Web Cast: National Summit on Patient Safety Data
Conferences and Workshops
Agenda for Research in Ambulatory Patient Safety
Conference Synthesis
Beyond State Reporting: Medical Errors and Patient Safety Issues
Building the Business Case for Patient Safety: Audio Tapes Available
Can You Minimize Health Care Costs by Improving Patient Safety?
Web-Assisted Teleconference Proceedings
Improved Patient Safety: Sharing Issues, Successes, and Challenges Across States: Workshop Brief
Improving Patient Safety In Rural Hospitals: A Workshop With Wisconsin Health Care Leaders
Making the Health Care System Safer: Second Annual Patient Safety Research Conference
Making the Health Care System Safer: Third Annual Patient Safety Research Conference
Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety: Technical Assistance Conference Call Summary
American College of Physicians (ACP)
Vist ACP's Patient Safety section of the Web site at: http://www.acponline.org/ptsafety/index.html. Some of the materials located there include:ACP's Patient Safety FAQs and Patient Safety Tips Archive and information on:
Patient Safety: The Other Side of the Quality Equation is a three-year, multifaceted ACP initiative funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to improve patient safety in ambulatory care. ACP is in a unique position to help physicians across the country learn about the latest research in patient safety, and thereby can transform the care of patients at a local level.
Association of American Medical Colleges
The AAMC maintains a Web site dedicated to health care quality and safety issues.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety Web site
This site is designed and being implemented to serve as a major, central repository of resources and information related to all aspects of patient safety that will be relevant for patients, families, physicians, nurses, pharmacists – as well as for all health care institutions and allied professionals.
National Patient Safety Goals for 2005 and 2006
The Joint Commission's Board of Commissioners approved the 2006 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) at its May meeting.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Safety: General
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has developed and adapted a suite of tools to help organizations accelerate their work to improve patient safety and develop a culture of safety. In addition, many organizations have developed tools in the course of their improvement efforts — successful protocols, order sets and forms, instructions and guidelines for implementing key changes — and are making them available on IHI.org for others to use or adapt in their own organizations. The tools are grouped according to the key areas where changes must be made to improve patient safety.
For more information and to see IHI's Patient Safety tools visit the Patient Safety section of their Web site at:
http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/PatientSafety/SafetyGeneral/Tools/For IHI's Frequently Asked Questions about Patient Safety visit: http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/PatientSafety/SafetyGeneral/FAQs/
The Literature section on IHI.org features books and peer-reviewed articles, chosen by their Advisors as some of the best available literature in a specific Topic or Subtopic. In addition, you will find stories that have appeared as features on IHI.org. For Literature focusing on Patient Safety visit: http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/PatientSafety/SafetyGeneral/Literature/
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
Medical Leaders in Patient Safety - Video - 22 minutes - Copyright 2004 Produced by Health Care Improvement Foundation - Delaware Valley Healthcare Council - Institute for Safe Medication Practices - ECRI
Patients Play a Vital Role in Patient Safety - Video - 23 Minutes - Copyright 2003 Produced by Health Care Improvement Foundation - Delaware Valley Healthcare Council - Institute for Safe Medication Practices - ECRI
Patient Safety Requires A Team Effort - This educational video is the second in a series produced for the Regional Medication Safety Program for Hospitals.
Patient Safety Brochure - Promoting safe medication practices includes encouraging patients to take an active role in their drug therapy. This ISMP brochure, written in an easy-to-read style, presents common scenarios patients encounter in the hospital, doctor's office, and pharmacy, and even at home. Each situation offers suggestions on how to avoid medication errors. These brochures can be added to hospital admission kits, disseminated at health fairs, placed in waiting rooms, or displayed in community pharmacies. You can obtain a free copy, or order the brochure in bulk.
