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- Australian Patient Safety Foundation - Provides leadership in the reduction of harm to patients in all health care environments and provides incident reporting and monitoring systems. Collects de-identified incident report data for inclusion in an aggregated database that facilitates comparative research.
www.apsf.net.au
- Center on Patient Safety - Supports professional practice of pharmacists in hospitals and health systems and promotes issues related to medication use and public health. Includes research, links, and informative brochures.
www.ashp.org/patient_safety
- FDA Patient Safety News - Televised series carried on satellite broadcast networks for health care personnel at hospitals and other medical facilities across the country. Features information on new medical devices, FDA safety notifications and product recalls, and ways to protect patients when using medical devices.
www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfTopic/psn/index.cfm
- Institute For Safe Medication Practices - Provides information about adverse drug events and their prevention to healthcare practitioners and institutions, regulatory agencies, professional organizations and the pharmaceutical industry. Includes research findings, books and publications, an electronic discussion forum, and links to related sites.
www.ismp.org
- JCAHO Facts About Patient Safety - Improves safety and quality of care for patients and residents in health care organizations through accreditation and performance improvement.
www.jcaho.org/accredited+organizations/patient+safety/index.htm
- Making Health Care Safer - Analyzes controlled observational studies, clinical trials, and peer-reviewed medical literature on practices relevant to improving patient safety. Focuses on prevention of errors and adverse events.
www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/ptsafety
- Maryland Patient Safety - Supports regional patient safety initiatives by encouraging collaborative efforts, disseminating current knowledge relating to patient safety, and developing a formal structure for activities.
www.marylandpatientsafety.org
- Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety - Promotes patient safety by encouraging collaboration between participants of the Minnesota health care system. Includes organizational assessment tools, information on best practices, and links to related resources.
www.mnpatientsafety.org
- National Patient Safety Agency - Promotes an open culture in hospitals, encouraging doctors and other staff to report incidents and "near misses," when things almost go wrong. Encourages staff to report incidents without fear of personal reprimand and know that by sharing their experiences others will be able to learn lessons and improve patient safety. The change of emphasis is more about the "how" than the "who."
www.npsa.org.uk
- National Patient Safety Foundation - Information, research, and resources on professional, consumer, and systems issues related to patient safety. The online discussion forum is devoted to development of a safer health care system.
www.npsf.org
- National Quality Forum - Promotes change through development and implementation of a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting.
www.qualityforum.org
- p4ps-Partnership for Patient Safety - A patient-centered intitiative to advance the reliability of healthcare systems worldwide. Includes videos, audio cassettes, and CD-ROM training tools.
www.p4ps.org
- Patient Safety Center of Inquiry - Supports clinicians in providing safe patient care by designing and testing clinical innovations, technological solutions, and patient safety improvement systems. Research targets the frail elderly and persons with disabilities.
www.patientsafetycenter.com
- Patient Safety Data Standards - Promotes development of data standards applicable to the collection, coding and classification of patient safety information. The plan will apply to both adverse event data and errors data.
www.iom.edu/IOM/IOMHome.nsf/Pages/Patient+Safety+Data+Standards
- Patient Safety First - Assists perioperative nurses, managers and practitioners in providing safe patient care. Offers resources related to patient safety in surgical settings, including lists of educational products and resources, articles, and links to national patient safety initiatives.
www.patientsafetyfirst.org/default.htm
- Patient Safety Institute - Provides real-time, secure, patient-centric clinical information in five areas critical for delivering quality care: diagnoses, laboratory results, medications, allergies and immunizations.
www.ptsafety.org
- Patient Safety Reporting System - A voluntary, confidential, non-punitive program available to all VA employees for the reporting of events and concerns related to patient safety.
psrs.arc.nasa.gov
- Quality Interagency Coordination (QuIC) Task Force - Ensures that Federal agencies involved in purchasing, providing, studying, or regulating health care services are working in a coordinated manner toward the common goal of improving quality care.
www.quic.gov/index.htm
- QuIC Report on Patient Safety - Prepared by the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC), proposes strong action on Institute of Medicine recommendations to promote safer health care.
www.quic.gov/report/toc.htm
- The Leapfrog Group - Promotes improvements in the safety of health care by giving consumers data to make more informed hospital choices. Includes hospital survey results, patient safety research, and links to related sites.
www.leapfroggroup.org
- UCLA Center for Patient Safety and Quality - Defines and promotes changes necessary to create a blame free culture that encourages reporting and learning from mistakes, near misses and mishaps. Provides the link between UCLA Healthcare and the University of California patient safety efforts (SAFER California Healthcare).
quality.mednet.ucla.edu
- VA National Center for Patient Safety - Patient Safety: medical error, medication error, medical equipment failure, root cause analysis, human factors, usability, physician error, pharmacy error, nursing error, iatrogenesis, failure mode analysis
www.patientsafety.gov
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