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Patient Safety
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement www.ihi.org
IHI is an organization dedicated to helping healthcare organizations improve patient care. They have a number of resources specifically available to improving medication safety.
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices www.ismp.org
Highlights issues in safe medication use with alerts, newsletters, and current issues. Self-assessment available to evaluate organizational medication safety issues.
- Joint Commission on Accrediation of Health Care Organizations www.jcaho.org
Notes on National Patient Safety Goals, current news as well as some tools, such as reoot cause analysis.
- National Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention www.nccmerp.org
USP and 23 other organizations provide recommendations for patient safety. Reports of medication errors can be made directly on this web page.
- National Council on Patient Information and Education www.talkaboutrx.org
Links to patient flyers on a variety of medication safety topics in English and Spanish.
- National Patient Safety Foundation www.npsf.org
Provides links to flyers, conferences, speakers, and other links to health organizations dedicated to patient safety.
- Qualityhealthcare.org www.qualityhealthcare.org/qhc
Supported by IHI and the BMJ publishing group to promote quality in health care systems including patient safety information and online forums.
- VA National Center for Patient Safety www.patientsafety.gov
Great tools for patient safety iniatives sucn as root cause analysis and patient safety handbook.
- Addressing Medication Errors in Hospitals: A Practical Tool Kit www.chcf.org/topics/index.cfm?topic=CL143
Extensive and practical tools to help an institution begin a pateint safety program
- University of Michigan Health System Patient Safety Toolkit www.med.umich.edu/patientsafetytoolkit/events.htm
Excellent site with full access to comprehensive tools to begin a patient safety program
- Pathways for Medication Safety: Assessing Bedside Barcoding Readiness www.medpathways.info
Provides full access tools to assessing ability and actual implementation of bedside barcoding
