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 Is Personal: Partnering With Patients and Families for the Safest Care. April 2, 2014 Safety as You Go from Hospital to Home. March 6, 2005 Through the Eyes of the Workforce: Creating Joy, Meaning, and Safer Health Care. March 20, 2013 Shining a Light: Safer Health Care Through Transparency. 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Free From Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement Fifteen Years After To Err Is Human. December 16, 2015
Transforming Health Care: A Compendium of Reports From the National Patient Safety Foundation's Lucian Leape Institute. June 1, 2016
Optimizing a Business Case for Safe Health Care: An Integrated Approach to Safety and Finance. July 12, 2017
Call to Action: Preventable Health Care Harm Is a Public Health Crisis and Patient Safety Requires a Coordinated Public Health Response. March 22, 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
Poll: Many Sick Americans Experience Significant Financial Problems and Report Their Care is not Well-Managed. May 30, 2012
Patient safety monitoring in acute care in a decentralized national health care system: conceptual framework and initial set of actionable indicators. July 28, 2021
Influence of gender, profession, and managerial function on clinicians' perceptions of patient safety culture: a cross-national cross-sectional study. June 9, 2021
Associations between national board exam performance and residency program emphasis on patient safety and interprofessional teamwork. September 11, 2019
Nursing home staff turnover and perceived patient safety culture: results from a national survey. November 4, 2020
Medication safety in mental health hospitals: a mixed-methods analysis of incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System. August 4, 2021
Association between hospital acquired harm outcomes and membership in a national patient safety collaborative. August 10, 2022
Relationships between pediatric safety indicators across a national sample of pediatric hospitals: dispelling the myth of the "safest" hospital. June 22, 2022
Engaging with ethnic minority consumers to improve safety in cancer services: a national stakeholder analysis. May 25, 2022
National improvements in resident physician-reported patient safety after limiting first-year resident physicians' extended duration work shifts: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies. May 25, 2022
Understanding the factors influencing implementation of a new national patient safety policy in England: lessons from 'Learning from Deaths'. May 18, 2022
Speaking up about traditional and professionalism-related patient safety threats: a national survey of interns and residents. May 10, 2017
Mix-up (wrong route of administration) of bladder irrigation with intravenous (IV) infusions. May 3, 2006
Information Design for Patient Safety: A Guide to the Graphic Design of Medication Packaging. 2nd edition. November 23, 2007
Being open: communicating patient safety incidents with patients and their carers. September 28, 2005
The tradeoffs between safety and alert fatigue: data from a national evaluation of hospital medication-related clinical decision support. July 29, 2020
National Partnership for Maternal Safety: consensus bundle on support after a severe maternal event. January 27, 2021
The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on healthcare-associated infections in 2020: a summary of data reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network. September 22, 2021
Quality and safety in hospital pediatrics during COVID-19: a national qualitative study. January 12, 2022
Organizational readiness to change as a leverage point for improving safety: a national nursing home survey. September 8, 2021
Latent safety threats and countermeasures in the operating theater: a national in situ simulation-based observational study. February 23, 2022
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