Fact Sheet/FAQs Preventing Infections in the Hospital—What You As a Patient Can Do. Citation Text: National Patient Safety Foundation; NPSF Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL March 27, 2005 National Patient Safety Foundation; NPSF Postoperative infections represent a common and often preventable event. This patient fact sheet outlines practical tips to minimize risk. Free full text Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: National Patient Safety Foundation; NPSF Copy Citation Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Safety as You Go from Hospital to Home. March 6, 2005 Safety Is Personal: Partnering With Patients and Families for the Safest Care. April 2, 2014 Transforming Health Care: A Compendium of Reports From the National Patient Safety Foundation's Lucian Leape Institute. June 1, 2016 RCA2: Improving Root Cause Analyses and Actions to Prevent Harm. 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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
Optimizing a Business Case for Safe Health Care: An Integrated Approach to Safety and Finance. July 12, 2017
Addressing the Harms of Financialization in Healthcare. Research to Inform Advocacy and Action and Expand the Evidence Base. January 17, 2024
Health Literacy and Patient Safety: Help Patients Understand. Manual for Clinicians. 2nd ed. September 5, 2007
Consumers' Priorities for Hospital Quality Improvement and Implications for Public Reporting. May 18, 2011
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
Health Information Technology in the United States: The Information Base for Progress. October 25, 2006
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
How to seek care for non-covid health issues during the pandemic, and why you shouldn’t delay. September 29, 2021
Engineering care transitions: clinician perceptions of barriers to safe medication management during transitions of patient care. May 19, 2021
Avoiding a Med-Wreck: a structured medication reconciliation framework and standardized auditing tool utilized to optimize patient safety and reallocate hospital resources. March 3, 2021
Covid-19 surge could lead to another drop in patient visits, doctors fear—and more missed pediatric cancers. December 23, 2020
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Emergency Department visits and patient safety in the United States. August 26, 2020
Delayed access to care and late presentations in children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a snapshot survey of 4075 paediatricians in the UK and Ireland. July 29, 2020
Declines in hospitalizations for acute cardiovascular conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multicenter tertiary care experience. July 1, 2020
Using a spare medication vial to store multiple medications: a potentially fatal in-home medication error. March 6, 2019
Tackling ambulatory safety risks through patient engagement: what 10,000 patients and families say about safety-related knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes after reading visit notes. June 6, 2018