Patient Safety
Specific information regarding patient safety or risk management can be best addressed through a literature search. Please contact the library at 359-3040 for a search or email your request using the Request a Computerized Bibliographic Search form. For CME credits in patient safety, try an online course.
Go to library resources in patient safety
JCAHO Patient Safety Standards
Presents 2007 standards and the sentinel event policy and procedure including goals, standards, reviewable events, and the role of the sentinel events database
ACP-ASIM Patient Safety
Developed by the American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine. Provides information about patient safety-related training, online learning, safety tips and guidelines, useful links and opportunities for involvement in patient safety programs
AHRQ Medical Errors and Patient Safety Reseach Page
Developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, this site offers a collection of documents, press releases, workshops, speeches and statements, and congressional hearings
AHRQ M&M
the online journal and forum on patient safety and health care quality. This site features expert analysis of medical errors reported anonymously by our readers, interactive learning modules on patient safety, Spot Light Cases, and forums for online discussion. CME credit is available.
AHRQ Patient Safety Primers
Guide you through key concepts in patient safety. Each Primer defines a topic, offers background information on its epidemiology and context, and highlights relevant content from both AHRQ PSNet and AHRQ WebM&M.
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Patient Safety
Includes safety checklists, advisory statements and patient safety tips.
Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
Offers medical information, APSF Newsletter, safety links and a search function.
APIC Patient Safety
From the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
ASHP Center on Patient Safety
This site, offered by the American Society of Health System Pharmacists, offers news, legislative information, medication safety issue briefs and information on error reporting programs
Campaign to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance in Healthcare Settings
Offers clinicians tools to prevent resistance among specific populations. Recommends steps for preventing microbial resistance based on guidelines, recommendations and reseach
CMS Needs Additional Authority to Adequately Oversee Patient Safety in Hospitals
A new GAO report states that more than three-quarters of major deficiencies and errors at hospitals are not found during normal accreditation reviews.
ECRI
Mission is to improve the safety, quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Offers information regarding three critical areas of patient safety: medication systems, preventing falls and surgical site infections. Includes the Safety Climate Survey tool which helps organizations measure the success of their patient safety initiatives. Refistration is required, but free.
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
Provides independent review of medication errors that have been submitted to the Medical Errors Reporting Program developed by the US Pharmacopeia. Page offers safety alerts, drug safety product testing, and information on error reporting and electronic prescribing
JCAHO patient safety goals for 2005
Making Health Care Safer: A Crtical Analysis of Patient Safety
Covers 73 patient safety practices that are likely to improve patient safety, based on an analysis of published evidence, and describes 11 that the researchers considered "highly proven to work but not performed routinely in the nation's hospitals and nursing homes"
Mederrors.com
Includes a library, events and continuing education
Medical Device Safety Reports
Focus is on informing customers and helping vendors understand what they can do to reduce medical device safety problems and risks
National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention
An independent organization representing 19 national organizations. SIte includes information on medication errors, council recommendations, press releases and links
National Patient Safety Foundation
Sponsored by the American Medical Association, this site offers patient safety literature, educational programs, and a list of related sites
New Research Projects Awarded to Improve Patient Safety
Site provides detailed information on scores of patient safety programs funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The projects address questions about how medical errors occur, in order to provide guideance on how patients, clinicians, policy makers and others can respond
Pathways for Medication Safety
A set of tools designed to reduce medication errors. Helps hospitals take a process-driven, system-based approach in addressing the critical issue of medication errors.
The Patient Safety Act of 2004
Introduced May 17, 2004, by Hinchley to require Medical providers to disclose publicly staffing and performance in order to promote improved consumer information and choice.
Patient Safety First
Hosted by AORN. Focuses on patient safety in surgical settings. Stated mission is to help resistered nurses achieve the best outcomes for patients undergoing surgery. Includes news, bibliographies, links, press releases and more.
Patient Safety in American Hospitals
This HealthGrades report is based on Medicare data from 2000 - 2002 and 16 of the 20 patient-safety indicators defined by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Patient Safety Institute
An initiative to improve patient safety by offering providers secure, real-time access to an online patient database system at the point of care or decision. The five key areas of information: diagnoses, laboratory results, medications, allergies and immunizations.
Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System
The Patient Safety Authority developed the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System, known as PA-PSRS (pronounced "PAY-sirs"), a secure, web-based system that permits healthcare facilities to submit reports of what Act 13 of 2002 defines as "serious events" and "incidents." Statewide mandatory reporting through PA-PSRS went into effect on June 28, 2004.
Practitioner Reporting
Click on Patient Safety to access. Provides a collection of reports that have been used to develop databases, improve drug standards and deliver feedback to manufacturers, regulatory agencies and providers. Site developed by the US Pharmacopeia
Principles of Patient Safety in Pediatrics
Features patient safety principles adopted by the American Academy for Pediatrics. The statement documents problems, as well as measures to improves pediatric patient safety
Patient Safety CME
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Offers a number of courses focusing on medical errors and quality of health care. Free
American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians
Offers a number of courses on medication errors and patient safety. Costs range from $15 to $239
Health Communications Research Institute
2 courses offered: Enhancing Patient Compliance and Enhancing Patient Satisfaction and Member Retention. $12 per course
Joint Commission Resources
1 course - Components of Patient Safety. $149. Group rates are available
Medical Risk Management, Inc.
Offers courses on communications, documentation and preventing medical errors. Costs range from $30 to $150.
Pennsylvania Medical Society
The Society offers online CME resources and two newsletters to help member physicians communicate better, reduce their liability risk, and improve relationships with patients, while earning CME that will qualify for the State Board of Medicine requirements for risk management and patient safety education.
University of Michigan School of Medicine
One course offered: Improving Patient Safety in Hospitals. Free
Library Resources
Selected book and audiovisual resources are listed. For more titles in patient safety, please search the library online catalog. If you are not an AGH authorized user, please contact your local library for access to these titles
Aspden, Philip. Patient safety: achieving a new standard for care. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2004.
WB 100 P297I 2004
JCAHO. Hospital patient safety standards: examples of complicance. Oakbrook Terrace, IL : Joint Commission Resources, 2002
WX 185 H832J 2002
Kohn, Linda T. To err is human: building a safer health system. Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 2000.
W 84 K852T 2000
Marder, Robert. Patient safety: a guide to JCAHO compliance and beyond. Marbelhead, MA : Opus Xommunications, 2002
WX 185 M137P 2002
Medication management: meeting the standards. Denver, CO : Medical Consultants, 2004.
WX 175 M489 2004 VIDEO V.1-2
Morath, Julianna M. To do no harm: ensuring patient safety in health care organizations. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2005.
WX 185 M831T 2005
Page, Ann. Keeping patients safe: transforming the work environment of nurses. Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2004.
WX 185 K26C 2004
Patient safety: essentials for health care. Oakbrook Terrace, IL : Joint Commission Resources, 2004.
WX 185 P298J 2004
Patient safety: light the way. Virginia Beach, VA : Coastal, 2002
WX 185 P156C 2002 VIDEO
Patient safety: meeting the standards. Denver, CO : Medical Consultants, 2004.
WX 185 P298 2004 VIDEO
Sharpe, Virginia A. Accountability patient safety and policy reform. Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2004.
WX 185 A172S 2004
Spath, Patricia. Partnering with patients to reduce medical errors. Chicago : Health Forum, 2004.
WB 100 P273S 2004
