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Patient safety toolkits provide practical applications of PSNet research and concepts for front line providers to use in their day to day work. These toolkits contain resources necessary to implement patient safety systems and protocols.
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Measurement Tool/Indicator
Plymouth Meeting, PA: Institute for Safe Medication Practices; 2023.
Experience from the sharp end helps to inform safety improvement initiatives. The results from this field survey will inform the revision of a high-alert medication list used to raise awareness about certain drugs that have heightened potential to cause patient harm if used incorrectly. The deadline for submitting comments is October 20, 2023.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; July 2023.
Obstetric hemorrhage and severe high blood pressure during pregnancy are leading known causes of preventable maternal harms in the United States. The AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care, Phase 2 developed toolkits consisting of case scenarios, slides, and facilitators guides to work in tandem to address these threats to maternal safety. The materials inform training opportunities to improve the safety culture of labor and delivery units and decrease maternal and neonatal adverse events that result from poor communication and system failures.
London, UK: NHS England; July 2023.
A strong patient safety culture needs nurturing to serve as a foundation for launching and sustaining improvements. This toolkit provides access to existing tools that support teamwork and communication, fairness, psychological safety, promotion of diversity and inclusivity, and civility as elements of a safety culture.
Fact Sheet/FAQs
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Horsham, PA; Institute for Safe Medication Practices: July 2023.
Drawing on information gathered from the ISMP Medication Errors Reporting Program, this fact sheet provides a comprehensive list of commonly confused medication names, including look-alike and sound-alike name pairs. Drug name confusion can easily lead to medication errors, and the ISMP has recommended interventions such as the use of tall man lettering in order to prevent such errors. An error due to sound-alike medications is discussed in this AHRQ WebM&M commentary.
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Tools/Toolkit
Chicago, IL: American Hospital Association Physician Leadership Forum; July 2014.
Antimicrobial stewardship has been promoted as an element of patient safety. This toolkit provides resources for hospital administrators, clinicians, and patients to help prevent overuse of antibiotics, including a readiness assessment checklist, webinars, and frequently asked questions.
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; AHRQ; University of California, San Francisco-Stanford Evidence-based Practice Center.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Quality Indicators (QIs) represent quality measures that make use of a hospital's available administrative data. The Inpatient Quality Indicators include inpatient mortality for certain procedures and medical conditions; utilization of procedures for which there are questions of underuse, overuse, and misuse; and volume of procedures for which evidence suggests that a higher volume is associated with lower mortality.
