|
Additional Resources (not subjected to our MD rating): |
| Specials: American Express no-fee card pays back upto 5% cash. | Vitamin Shoppe up to 75% off retail. |
Home > Health > Public_Health_and_Safety > Patient_Safety
1.Patient Safety Reporting System
A voluntary, confidential, non-punitive program available to all VA employees for the reporting of events and concerns related to patient safety.
URL:http://psrs.arc.nasa.gov/
2.UCLA Center for Patient Safety and Quality
Defines and promotes changes necessary to create a blame free culture that encourages reporting and learning from mistakes, near misses and mishaps. Provides the link between UCLA Healthcare and the University of California patient safety efforts (SAFER California Healthcare).
URL:http://quality.mednet.ucla.edu/
3.FDA Patient Safety News
Televised series carried on satellite broadcast networks for health care personnel at hospitals and other medical facilities across the country. Features information on new medical devices, FDA safety notifications and product recalls, and ways to protect patients when using medical devices.
URL:http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfTopic/psn/index.cfm
4.Making Health Care Safer
Analyzes controlled observational studies, clinical trials, and peer-reviewed medical literature on practices relevant to improving patient safety. Focuses on prevention of errors and adverse events.
URL:http://www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/ptsafety/
5.Australian Patient Safety Foundation
Provides leadership in the reduction of harm to patients in all health care environments and provides incident reporting and monitoring systems. Collects de-identified incident report data for inclusion in an aggregated database that facilitates comparative research.
URL:http://www.apsf.net.au/
6.Center on Patient Safety
Supports professional practice of pharmacists in hospitals and health systems and promotes issues related to medication use and public health. Includes research, links, and informative brochures.
URL:http://www.ashp.org/patient_safety/
7.Patient Safety Data Standards
Promotes development of data standards applicable to the collection, coding and classification of patient safety information. The plan will apply to both adverse event data and errors data.
URL:http://www.iom.edu/IOM/IOMHome.nsf/Pages/Patient+Safety+Data+Standards
8.Institute For Safe Medication Practices
Provides information about adverse drug events and their prevention to healthcare practitioners and institutions, regulatory agencies, professional organizations and the pharmaceutical industry. Includes research findings, books and publications, an electronic discussion forum, and links to related sites.
URL:http://www.ismp.org/
9.JCAHO Facts About Patient Safety
Improves safety and quality of care for patients and residents in health care organizations through accreditation and performance improvement.
URL:http://www.jcaho.org/accredited+organizations/patient+safety/index.htm
10.The Leapfrog Group
Promotes improvements in the safety of health care by giving consumers data to make more informed hospital choices. Includes hospital survey results, patient safety research, and links to related sites.
URL:http://www.leapfroggroup.org/
11.Maryland Patient Safety
Supports regional patient safety initiatives by encouraging collaborative efforts, disseminating current knowledge relating to patient safety, and developing a formal structure for activities.
URL:http://www.marylandpatientsafety.org/
12.Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety
Promotes patient safety by encouraging collaboration between participants of the Minnesota health care system. Includes organizational assessment tools, information on best practices, and links to related resources.
URL:http://www.mnpatientsafety.org/
13.National Patient Safety Agency
Promotes an open culture in hospitals, encouraging doctors and other staff to report incidents and "near misses," when things almost go wrong. Encourages staff to report incidents without fear of personal reprimand and know that by sharing their experiences others will be able to learn lessons and improve patient safety. The change of emphasis is more about the "how" than the "who."
URL:http://www.npsa.org.uk/
14.National Patient Safety Foundation
Information, research, and resources on professional, consumer, and systems issues related to patient safety. The online discussion forum is devoted to development of a safer health care system.
URL:http://www.npsf.org/
15.p4ps-Partnership for Patient Safety
A patient-centered intitiative to advance the reliability of healthcare systems worldwide. Includes videos, audio cassettes, and CD-ROM training tools.
URL:http://www.p4ps.org/
16.VA National Center for Patient Safety
Patient Safety: medical error, medication error, medical equipment failure, root cause analysis, human factors, usability, physician error, pharmacy error, nursing error, iatrogenesis, failure mode analysis
URL:http://www.patientsafety.gov/
17.Patient Safety Center of Inquiry
Supports clinicians in providing safe patient care by designing and testing clinical innovations, technological solutions, and patient safety improvement systems. Research targets the frail elderly and persons with disabilities.
URL:http://www.patientsafetycenter.com/
18.Patient Safety First
Assists perioperative nurses, managers and practitioners in providing safe patient care. Offers resources related to patient safety in surgical settings, including lists of educational products and resources, articles, and links to national patient safety initiatives.
URL:http://www.patientsafetyfirst.org/default.htm
19.Patient Safety Institute
Provides real-time, secure, patient-centric clinical information in five areas critical for delivering quality care: diagnoses, laboratory results, medications, allergies and immunizations.
URL:http://www.ptsafety.org/
20.National Quality Forum
Promotes change through development and implementation of a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting.
URL:http://www.qualityforum.org/
Next 20 records >>
|
|
About us | Suggest a site | Feedback | Disclaimer |