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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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Gilbert R, Asselbergs M, Davis D, et al. Healthcare Excellence Canada; 2023.
Patient safety requires a systems approach to identify problems and arrive at lasting solutions that reduce harm. This document encourages discussion amongst a broad base of stakeholders to address all forms of harm, such as discrimination, inequality, and psychological stress, in addition to physical injury. The resource insists these components be incorporated in work to close quality and safety gaps across the health care system.
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Canadian Institute for Health Information, Health Excellence Canada.
Reducing preventable harm associated with health care is a worldwide goal. This Canadian initiative developed a measure to track unintended harm in acute care hospitals, a toolkit to accompany reduction efforts, and reports that assess the results of improvement efforts and provide data analysis.
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.
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American Hospital Association; Health Research and Educational Trust; Institute for Safe Medication Practices
A compendium of risk assessment tools to assist in the prevention of medication errors. The tools emphasize the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to managing risk with key sections focusing on physicians, nurses, pharmacists, risk managers, and administrators.
Fact Sheet/FAQs
The Joint Commission.
The Joint Commission has contributed significant efforts to advancing patient safety. This fact sheet provides an overview of the organization's safety improvement work, including publishing sentinel event alerts, establishing National Patient Safety Goals, and launching the Speak Up campaign.
American Hospital Association.
National Center for Patient Safety.
These materials provide an introduction to the purpose of healthcare failure mode and effect analysis (HFMEA), the steps of the HFMEA process, and how to apply the technique to address the Joint Commission proactive risk assessment standard.
Government Resource
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research; AHCPR; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; AHRQ.
This AHRQ brochure provides practical advice for patients facing non-emergent surgery, to help them be generally informed about the procedure, aware of the risks, and prepared to contribute to the safety of their experience.
Government Resource
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research; AHCPR.
This guide offers information and resources to allow consumers to understand quality health care. The site is organized to read page by page or to immediately browse to specific sections. Content areas include health care quality, quality measurement and tools, health care decision making, clinical trials, and a directory of resources.
Glossary
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Developed by the Systems Issues Working Group of the National Steering Committee on Patient Safety, the dictionary represents an effort to establish common language and understanding of the terms that are central to patient safety.
