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Open for Better Care.
Health Quality & Safety Commission New Zealand.
This Web site hosts tools and resources associated with a national campaign to augment patient care. The initiative aims to build collaborative programs across New Zealand to reduce falls, health care–associated infections, medication errors, and harm related to surgery.
Book/Report
Windows into Safety and Quality in Health Care 2008.
Sydney, Australia: Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care; 2008. ISBN: 9780980346275.
This report compiles public and private data to provide insight into the quality and safety of patient care in Australian hospitals.
Tools/Toolkit > Multi-use Website
Safe Surgery Saves Lives: The Second Global Patient Safety Challenge.
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Geneva, Switzerland: WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety; June 25, 2008.
This initiative provides a surgical safety checklist and related educational and training materials to encourage international adoption of a core set of safety standards. Implementation of this World Health Organization's checklist has resulted in dramatic reductions in surgical mortality and complications across diverse international hospitals. Surgical checklists have now become one of the clearest success stories in the patient safety movement, although some have described challenges to effective implementation. Dr. Atul Gawande discussed the history of checklists as a quality and safety tool in his book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.
Book/Report
Patient Safety in Public Hospitals.
Victorian Auditor-General's Office. Melbourne, Australia: Victorian Government Printer; 2008. ISBN: 1921060689.
This report examined patient safety in public hospitals in the state of Victoria (Australia), which does not have an incident monitoring system. Estimating that 10% of patients experienced a medical error, the report recommends several steps to improve safety.
Book/Report
Commentary on Sentinel & Serious Events Reported by District Health Boards - 2006/07.
Auckland, NZ: Quality Improvement Committee; 2008.
This report releases information about serious medical errors and preventable deaths recorded in New Zealand hospitals.
Book/Report
Medication Safety and Hospital Referrals: A Report by the Health and Disability Commissioner.
Paterson R. Auckland, New Zealand: Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner; April 24, 2007.
This report analyzes an incident of medication error that led to a patient's death, discusses the subsequent actions taken by the health board, and calls for a coordinated approach to medication reconciliation in New Zealand.
Book/Report
Delivering Safer Health Care in Western Australia: The Second WA Sentinel Event Report 2005-2006.
East Perth, WA, Australia: Department of Health of Western Australia; 2006.
This report shares the 2005-2006 results of Western Australia's sentinel event reporting program and documents a reduction in two types of events: wrong site/wrong part surgeries and retained foreign objects.
Web Resource > Multi-use Website
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Sydney NSW, Australia.
Established in January 2006, the Commission leads and coordinates improvements in safety and quality in health care across Australia. Five areas have been identified as priorities for the Commission's efforts and include interventions to ensure the patient blood supply is safe, antimicrobial resistance is monitored, and rights of patients are considered when accessing health care services.