Fact Sheet/FAQs Pharmacy Safety and Service—What You Should Expect. Citation Text: National Patient Safety Foundation. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL March 6, 2005 National Patient Safety Foundation. A fact sheet outlining steps to help increase a patent's safe use of medications. Free full text Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: National Patient Safety Foundation. Copy Citation Related Resources From the Same Author(s) National Patient Safety Foundation. March 27, 2005 Lewis Blackman Leadership Award. January 19, 2022 Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) Grant Program. February 5, 2024 Closing the Loop: A Guide to Safer Ambulatory Referrals in the EHR Era. December 13, 2017 Optimizing a Business Case for Safe Health Care: An Integrated Approach to Safety and Finance. July 12, 2017 CANDOR Webinar Series. 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Optimizing a Business Case for Safe Health Care: An Integrated Approach to Safety and Finance. July 12, 2017
We Can’t Do This Alone! The Role That Patients, Family Members, and the General Public Play in Advancing Patient Safety. January 27, 2022 - January 27, 2022
Transforming Health Care: A Compendium of Reports From the National Patient Safety Foundation's Lucian Leape Institute. June 1, 2016
Free From Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement Fifteen Years After To Err Is Human. December 16, 2015
Call to Action: Preventable Health Care Harm Is a Public Health Crisis and Patient Safety Requires a Coordinated Public Health Response. March 22, 2017
A Systems Approach to Quality Improvement in Long-Term Care: Safe Medication Practices Workbook. April 18, 2007
Ten Years After Keeping Patients Safe: Have Nurses' Work Environments Been Transformed? April 2, 2014
Being open: communicating patient safety incidents with patients and their carers. September 28, 2005
Mix-up (wrong route of administration) of bladder irrigation with intravenous (IV) infusions. May 3, 2006
Poll: Many Sick Americans Experience Significant Financial Problems and Report Their Care is not Well-Managed. May 30, 2012
Information Design for Patient Safety: A Guide to the Graphic Design of Medication Packaging. 2nd edition. November 23, 2007
2020 Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting: an analysis of serious events and incidents from the nation’s largest event reporting database. May 19, 2021
Patient safety trends in 2021: an analysis of 288,882 serious events and incidents from the nation’s largest event reporting database. July 6, 2022
Using a spare medication vial to store multiple medications: a potentially fatal in-home medication error. March 6, 2019
All consumer medication information is not created equal: implications for medication safety. April 19, 2017
FDA requires label warnings to prohibit sharing of multi-dose diabetes pen devices among patients. March 11, 2015