Quality/Patient Safety – Inpatient
Falls
Communication
Hand Hygiene
Healthcare Associated Infections
- Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAIs)
- Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI)
- Partnering to Heal: Teaming Up Against Healthcare Acquired Infections
- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses - Chapter 41-Preventing Health Care-Associated Infections
- Prevent Surgical Site Infection
- Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAIs)
Sentinel Events/Disclosure
- Alternatives for Sharing Sentinel Event-Related Information with The Joint Commission
- Disclosure of Adverse Events to Patients
- Integrating Sentinel Event Analysis Into Your Infection Control Practice
- Leadership Response to a Sentinel Event: Respectful, Effective Crisis Management
- Never Events
- Sentinel Event
- Sentinel Event Alert
- Sentinel Event Data - Root Causes by Event Type
- When Things Go Wrong: Responding to Adverse Events (Consensus Statement of Harvard Hospitals)
- WHO Draft Guidelines for Adverse Event Reporting and Learning Systems
Universal Protocol
- Applying the Universal Protocol to Improve Patient Safety in Radiology Services
- Health Care Protocol: Non-OR Procedural Safety
- Help Prevent Errors in Your Care: For Surgical Patients
- Surgical Safety: Addressing the JCAHO Goals for Reducing Wrong-site, Wrong-patient, Wrong-procedure Events
- Universal Protocol For Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person Surgery
Quality Improvement
- Dartmouth Clinical Microsystems Greenbook -- Emergency Department
- Dartmouth Clinical Microsystems Greenbook -- Inpatient
- Dartmouth Clinical Microsystems Greenbook -- Long-Term Care
- Dartmouth Clinical Microsystems Greenbook -- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- Frequently Asked Questions: CMS Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program
- Health Care Quality and Safety-Guide from UNC Health Sciences Library
- Hospital Quality Initiative
- Leadership Guide to Quality Improvement for Emergency Medical Services Systems
- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses
- Quality Improvement Clinical Tools
- Quality Improvement Implementation and Hospital Performance on Quality Indicators
- Quality Indicators Toolkit for Hospitals
- Specifications Manual for National Hospital Inpatient Quality Measures
- Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP)
Errors Related to Abbreviations
- FDA Safety Page: Stemming Drug Errors from Abbreviations
- ISMP and FDA Campaign to Eliminate Use of Error-Prone Abbreviations
- ISMP and FDA Campaign to Eliminate Use of Error-Prone Abbreviations
- ISMP List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations
- Joint Commission's Official �Do Not Use� (Medications Abbreviations) List
High Alert Medications
Look Alike Medications
Medication Administration Standards/Guidelines
Medication Reconciliation
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Med Rec Toolkit
- Medication Safety Reconciliation Toolkit
- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses - Chapter 38 - Medication Reconciliation
- Prevent Adverse Drug Events with Medication Reconciliation
- Reconcile Medications at All Transition Points
Associations/Societies/Agencies
- Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
- American Health Information Management Association
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Community Care of North Carolina
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Medical Group Management Association
- National Committee for Quality Assurance
- NC Healthcare Quality Alliance
- North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians
- North Carolina Chapter of the American College of Physicians
- North Carolina Division of Public Health
- North Carolina Institute of Medicine
- North Carolina Medical Society
- North Carolina Pediatric Society