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Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request, "Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database.''

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Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research. Fed Register. June 3, 2022;87: 33795-33796.

Surveys are recognized tools to inform hospitals of the current status of their safety culture. This notice calls for public comment on the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to launch the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database data collection process. The deadline for submitting comments on this notification is August 2, 2022.

AHRQ Challenge on Innovative Solutions To Update or Re-Create TeamSTEPPS Videos.

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Rockville, MD; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: April 2022.

TeamSTEPPS promotes effective teamwork, collaboration, and communication in health care while focusing on strategies known to improve patient safety. This challenge competition seeks submissions to revise existing TeamSTEPPS videos to improve health literacy, equity, and cultural sensitivity. Written proposals are due June 20, 2022.

Use duodenoscopes with innovative designs to enhance safety: FDA Safety Communication.

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Silver Spring, MD: US Food and Drug Administration; April 5, 2022.

The challenge of medical device sterilization has shifted the design of some products with disposable elements in order to reduce opportunities for human error that increase infection potential during reuse. The publication supports the complete adoption of disposable duodenoscopes or scope components as a safety measure.

Progress achieved: The 2021 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award Winners.

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Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission: April 19, 2022.

The Eisenberg Award recognizes individual and organizational accomplishment toward patient safety and quality improvement. The 2021 honorees are Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH, Prime Healthcare Services, Ontario, California, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, and Mark R. Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH. The awards will be presented virtually during the National Quality Forum's annual meeting in July.

Disrespectful Behavior in your workplace.

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Institute for Safe Medication Practices.

Workplace bullying and disrespectful behavior have been shown to negatively affect fall rates, medication errors, and other adverse events. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices is seeking clinician input on and experiences with disrespectful behaviors in the ambulatory care setting (e.g., community, specialty, and long-term care pharmacies, physician practices, and outpatient visits) and how organizations have been working to improve the culture of respect. The survey will be open until May 27, 2022.

Patient Safety Fellowship.

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Health Care Futures. June-July 2022.

Strategies to educate new health professionals in patient safety and quality improvement can ensure commitment to improvement work. This fellowship will help learners understand the evolution of patient safety and develop skills in quality improvement and human factors engineering. The application period is now closed.

COVID-19 Focused Inspection Initiative in Healthcare.

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration. March 2, 2022.

The impact of nursing home inspections to ensure the quality and safety of the service environment is lacking. Weaknesses in the process became more explicit as poor long-term care infection control was determined to be a contributor to the early spread of COVID amongst nursing home residents. This announcement outlines a targeted inspection initiative to assess whether organizations previously sited have made progress toward improving workforce safety.

Request for proposals for clinical quality measures to improve diagnosis.

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Palo Alto CA; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: February 22, 2022.

A lack of consensus on measures for the effectiveness and accuracy of diagnosis represents a gap in improvement methods. This announcement seeks proposals to examine quality measures to motivate excellence in three primary areas of diagnostic concern: acute vascular events, infections, and cancer. The deadline to submit for the next round of funding is May 16, 2022.

Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for a Data Management and Coordinating Center for Diagnostic Centers of Excellence.

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Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. February 10, 2022. Publication No. NOT-NS-22-071.

Approaching diagnosis as a team activity is seen as a key approach to diagnostic effectiveness. This notice highlights the pending funding opportunity to launch Diagnostic Centers of Excellence to improve diagnosis of undiagnosed and unknown disease and research to inform improvement. In addition, a pending data coordination and management call for proposals to support the centers has been released.

Proposed 2022 CDC clinical practice guideline for prescribing opioids. A notice by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Fed Register. February 10, 2022;87: 7838-7840.

The 2016 Centers for Disease Control opioid guidelines have raised concerns as to their potential to contribute to patient harm. This announcement calls for comments from the field to inform and update current policy in response to safety issues that emerged as unintended consequences of the 2016 recommendation. Comments are due to be submitted by April 11, 2022.

NAM Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence program.

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National Academy of Medicine.

Diagnostic error reduction is gaining momentum as a primary focus of patient safety achievement. This educational program will draw from the 2015 Institute of Medicine Improving Diagnosis in Health Care report to support a multidisciplinary cohort of scholars to advance diagnostic improvement. The application process for the 2022-2023 class is open until March 3, 2022.

Fellowship in Diagnostic Excellence.

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Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.

Diagnostic error is garnering increased attention as a key area of focus in patient safety improvement. This fellowship program for physicians who have completed their residency will provide the opportunity to build expertise in enhancing diagnostic safety. The application process for the 2022-2023 program is now closed.

Medication safety issues with newly authorized PAXLOVID.

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Institute for Safe Medication Practices. Medication Safety Alerts. January 3, 2022.

Emerging care practices can produce unsafe situations due to the newness of the approaches involved. This alert highlights safety considerations with an oral antiretroviral COVID treatment that include medication administration problems. Safety recommendations are provided for prescribers and pharmacists.

Input for the TeamSTEPPS Curriculum Updates.

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Rockville MD, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research. December 7, 2021.

The TeamSTEPPS program is an established approach for improving teamwork and communication in health care. This announcement calls for feedback from healthcare teams and team members on how to update the current TeamSTEPPS training curriculum.

Age-related COVID-19 vaccine mix-ups.

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National Alert Network. Horsham, PA: Institute for Safe Medication Practices; Bethesda, MD: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. December 6, 2021.

Vaccine missteps are known to occur during flu and COVID-19 inoculation efforts. This announcement raises awareness of misadministration of COVID vaccines associated with patient age. It highlights storage protocols as one approach to minimize mistakes. This alert is part of a national program to distribute learnings from report analysis to improve medication safety.

Zero Suicide Initiative.

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Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration. Fed Register. November 3, 2021;(86):60883-60893.

Patient suicide attempts are considered never events. This funding announcement calls for program applications to motivate suicide prevention strategy implementation in the indigenous peoples’ community. The effort anchors on the Zero Suicide initiative to address unique challenges presented by the Indian health system.

AHRQ announces interest in research on digital healthcare safety.

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Special Emphasis Notice. October 28, 2021 Publication No. NOT-HS-22-004.

Digital information tools are increasingly relied upon to assist in care communication and decision support, yet their safety hasn’t been fully examined. This announcement highlights AHRQ interest in funding research on the safe use of digital information solutions with a focus on program implementation, system design, and usability.

Potential for medication overdose with ENFit low dose tip syringe: FDA Safety Communication.

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MedWatch Safety Alert. Silver Spring, MD: US Food and Drug Administration; October 12, 2021.

This announcement highlights the possibility of medication administration inaccuracy due to design characteristics of a low dose tip (LDT) syringe. Recommended cleaning methods and other actions for patients, families and clinicians are provided to protect dose precision when using these syringes.

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.

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Drug Enforcement Administration. October 23, 2021.

Removing unused medications from the home can help prevent accidental exposure to unneeded medications and limit their availability for misuse. This annual program provides patients with an opportunity to discard medications safely. The sponsors also provide education to highlight the importance of appropriate disposal of unused prescription drugs as a medication safety activity.

Agency information collection activities: National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN); comment request.

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Zirger JM, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fed Register. September 27, 2021;86:53309-53312.

Tracking healthcare-associated infection (HAI) data aids in national, regional, and organizational design of HAI improvement efforts. This notice calls for public comment on the continuation of the National Healthcare Safety Network HAI information collection process. The comment period closes November 26, 2021.

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