AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The Collection > Practice Guidelines

Narrow By

clear selections

Safety Target

•Device-related Complications (36)

•Diagnostic Errors (28)

•Identification Errors (12)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (47)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (4)

•Medication Safety (161)

•Medical Complications (55)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (13)

•Surgical Complications (34)

•Transfusion Complications (1)

•Psychological and Social Complications (8)

Origin/Sponsor

•Africa (1)

•Asia (2)

•Australia and New Zealand (4)

Resource Types

•Clinical Guideline (8)

•Journal Article (182)

•Legislation/Regulation (31)

•Meeting/Conference (2)

•Newsletter/Journal (1)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (55)

•Press Release/Announcement (8)

•Special or Theme Issue (3)

•Tools/Toolkit (13)

•Web Resource (7)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (33)

•Active Errors (58)

•Latent Errors (28)

•Near Miss (5)

Approach to Improving Safety
< All

Practice Guidelines

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (2)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (296)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (215)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (50)

•Patients (26)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (192)

•Psychiatric Facilities (3)

•Residential Facilities (4)

•Ambulatory Care (46)

•Outpatient Surgery (5)

•Patient Transport (1)

1 - 20 of 329

Show ExcerptDon't Show Excerpt

dropdown

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Tablet splitting: Do it only if you "half" to, and then do it safely.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. May 18, 2006;11:1-2.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Rx for a better prescription. Hospital bans doctors from using confusing medical abbreviations.

Hall J. The Free Lance-Star. September 25, 2005.

BOOK/REPORT

Proceedings from the ISMP Sterile Preparation Compounding Safety Summit: Guidelines for SAFE Preparation of Sterile Compounds.

Horsham, PA: Institute for Safe Medication Practices; 2013.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR, Smetzer JL. Hosp Pharm. 2007;42:884–888.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Improving the safety of telephone or verbal orders.

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. June 2006;3:1-5.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Eliminating insulin errors: RPhs share tricks.

Cassell DK. Drug Topics: Health-System Edition. March 20, 2006.

STUDY

Infant deaths associated with cough and cold medications—two states, 2005.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2007;56:1-4.

STUDY

Medication prescribing errors involving the route of administration.

Lesar TS. Hosp Pharm. 2006;41:1053-1066.

TOOLKIT

ISMP and FDA campaign to eliminate use of error-prone abbreviations.

Huntington Valley, PA: Institute for Safe Medication Practices.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Irked by drug-interaction alerts? Customize them, experts advise.

Dowhower Karpa K. Drug Topics [serial online]. April 17, 2006.

STUDY

Excess dosing of antiplatelet and antithrombin agents in the treatment of non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes.

Alexander KP, Chen AY, Roe MT, et al; CRUSADE Investigators. JAMA. 2005;294:3108-3116.

REVIEW

Clinical dilemmas and a review of strategies to manage drug shortages.

Rider AE, Templet DJ, Daley MJ, Shuman C, Smith LV. J Pharm Pract. 2013 Apr 3; [Epub ahead of print].

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR. Hosp Pharm. 2006;41:1148-1151.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Cardiovascular drugs: linked to many errors.

Santell JP. Drug Topics. June 20, 2005;149:HSE9.

COMMENTARY

Prevention of fatal opioid overdose.

Beletsky L, Rich JD, Walley AY. JAMA. 2012;308:1863-1864.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR. Hosp Pharm. 2006;41:725-728.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

ASHP guidelines on remote medication order processing.

Thompson B, Conrad G, Gum MO, et al; ASHP Expert Panel on Remote Medication Order Processing. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2010;67:672-677.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Death by handwriting.

Glabman M. Trustee. October 2005;58:29-32.

AUDIOVISUAL

Preventing dosage errors with Diastat AcuDial.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Patient Safety News. Show #59. January 2007.

FACT SHEET/FAQS

Eliminating Dangerous Abbreviations, Acronyms and Symbols.

Medication Safety Issue Briefs, Series III. Health Forum. June 2005;79.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >