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"Patient Safety" (88 records)

20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors

Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors
5 Million Lives Campaign

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Active Shooter Preparedness

U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
American Health Quality Assurance

American Health Quality Assocation
Associations Between a New Disruptive Behaviors Scale and Teamwork, Patient Safety, Work-Life Balance, Burnout, and Depression

Elsevier
Burden of Unintentional Falls in NC

Division of Public Health
Carolina Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (CGWEP): Falls

Carolina Geriatric Education Center (CGEC)
Clinical score to predict the risk of bile leakage after liver resection.

PubMed Central
Clinicians’ Perspectives on Proactive Patient Safety Behaviors in the Perioperative Environment

JAMA Network
Comprehensive maternal hemorrhage protocols reduce the use of blood products and improve patient safety

No Pub/Vend Assigned
Confronting safety gaps across labor and delivery teams

No Pub/Vend Assigned
Disclosure of Adverse Events to Patients

Veterans Health Administration
Estimated Performance of Transvaginal Ultrasonography for Evaluation of Postmenopausal Bleeding in a Simulated Cohort of Black and White Women in the US

JAMA Network
Fall Management Guidelines

Best Practice Committee
Falls and Fractures in Older Adults: Causes and Prevention

National Institute on Aging
Falls in Hospitals and State Government Residential Aged Care Facilities

Queensland Health
Falls Prevention

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Fatigue and patient safety. Committee Opinion No. 730.

OVID
Five Steps to Safer Health Care: Patient Fact Sheet

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
Hand Hygiene in Heathcare Settings

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Hand Hygiene: Back to Basics in Infection Prevention

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Heat Safety Tool

Occupational Safety & Health Administration
High-Alert Medication Safety

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
High-Alert Medications

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
High-Alert Medications Require Heightened Vigilance

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Hospital Quality Initiative

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
How to Improve (Model for Improvement)

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Infection Control in Health Care Facilities

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
The Influence of physician-nurse collaboration on patient safety culture

Elsevier
An intervention including the national early warning score improves patient monitoring practice and reduces mortality: A cluster randomized controlled trial

No Pub/Vend Assigned
ISMP Guidelines for Safe Electronic Communication of Medication Information

Institute for Safe Medication Practices
ISMP Medical Safety Alert!: Oops, sorry, wrong patient! Applying the JCAHO two-identifier rule beyond the patient's room

Institute for Safe Medication Practices
ISMP Medication Errors Reporting Program

Institute for Safe Medication Practices
ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Newsletters

Institute for Safe Medication Practices
ISMP Principles of Designing a Medication Label for Patient Specific Use

Institute for Safe Medication Practices
Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals

Joint Commission, The
Journal of Patient Experience

No Pub/Vend Assigned
LeapFrog Group

LeapFrog Group
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Look-Alike/Sound-Alike Medications � What Can be Done?

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Mature Follicle Count and Multiple Gestation Risk Based on Patient Age in Intrauterine Insemination Cycles With Ovarian Stimulation

No Pub/Vend Assigned
Medication Error Quality Initiative

NC Department of Health & Human Services (NC DHHS)
Medication Errors Name Differentiation Project

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
National Center for Patient Safety

National Center for Patient Safety
National Committee for Quality Assurance

National Committee for Quality Assurance
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) Online

US Consumer Product Safety Commission
National Health Security Preparedness Index

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
NC Association for Healthcare Quality

NC Association for Healthcare Quality
NC Falls Prevention Coalition

NC Falls Prevention Coalition
NCQA Programs

National Committee for Quality Assurance
Near-Apneic Ventilation Decreases Lung Injury and Fibroproliferation in an Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Model with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

No Pub/Vend Assigned
Never Events

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
Older Adult Fall Prevention

Injury Center
Overview ICD-10

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Patient Care Partnership

American Hospital Association
Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
Patient safety culture in out-of-hours primary care services in the Netherlands: a cross-sectional survey.

No Pub/Vend Assigned
Patient Safety Primers: Medication Reconciliation

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care

Institute of Medicine
Quality -- Patient Safety -- Inpatient Research Guide

NC AHEC
Quality Improvement Clinical Tools

Society of Hospital Medicine
Quality Improvement Implementation and Hospital Performance on Quality Indicators

Health Research and Educational Trust
Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs)

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Quality Indicators Toolkit for Hospitals

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
Quality of Care and One-Year Outcomes in Patients with Diabetes Hospitalised for Stroke or TIA: A Linked Registry Study

Elsevier
The quality, safety and governance of telephone triage and advice services - an overview of evidence from systematic reviews.

BioMed Central
RAND Quality of Care Assessment Tools (QA Tools)

RAND Health
Relieve the Pressure and Reduce Harm

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Risk Advisor for Nursing Professionals: Reducing Legal Risk While Caring for Patients

No Pub/Vend Assigned
Risk factors and outcomes associated with treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria in hospitalized patients

PubMed
Risk factors for a high Comprehensive Complication Index score after major hepatectomy for biliary cancer: a study of 229 patients at a single institution

PubMed Central
Rural Hospital Administrators’ Beliefs About Safety, Financial Viability, and Community Need for Offering Obstetric Care

No Pub/Vend Assigned
Safe Care Campaign

Safe Care Campaign
Safety and Antitumor Activity of Pembrolizumab in Advanced Programmed Death Ligand 1–Positive Endometrial Cancer: Results From the KEYNOTE-028 Study

No Pub/Vend Assigned
Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

JAMA
Sentinel Event

Joint Commission, The
Sentinel Event Polices and Procedures

Joint Commission, The
Separate Drugs that Look or Sound Alike

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Special Supplement to American Nurse Today – Best Practices for Falls Reduction: A Practical Guide.

No Pub/Vend Assigned
Surgical Safety: Addressing the JCAHO Goals for Reducing Wrong-site, Wrong-patient, Wrong-procedure Events

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System

Institute of Medicine
Universal Protocol For Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person Surgery

Joint Commission, The
Using Bundled Interventions to Reduce Surgical Site Infection After Major Gynecologic Cancer Surgery

OVID
Using Change Concepts for Improvement

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Vaginal preparation with povidone-iodine or chlorhexidine before hysterectomy: a propensity score matched analysis

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
VHA National Center for Patient Safety: Falls Toolkit

National Center for Patient Safety
Work-life balance behaviours cluster in work settings and relate to burnout and safety culture: a cross-sectional survey analysis

British Medical Journal (BMJ)

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