California Hospital Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO)
To assist hospitals in developing effective strategies to improve patient safety, the California Hospital Association formed the California Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO). CHPSO is dedicated to eliminating preventable harm and improving the quality of health care delivery in California hospitals.
CHPSO coordinates its efforts with the Regional Hospital Associations and patient safety collaboratives across the state. The CHPSO Board is comprised of hospital chief executives, chief medical officers, quality directors, consumer representatives and prominent leaders in patient safety.
CHPSO News
Subscribe to this news feedCHPSO Patient Safety News, Volume 2, Number 2. The second 2010 monthly edition of CHPSO Patient Safety News has been released.
CHPSO Patient Safety News, Volume 2, Number 1. The first 2010 monthly edition of CHPSO Patient Safety News has been released.
CHPSO Patient Safety News, Volume 1, Number 10. The tenth monthly edition of CHPSO Patient Safety News has been released.
CHPSO establishes resource-sharing area on website. The California Hospital Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO) has established a central information resource area on the CHPSO web site to assist hospitals in their patient-safety and quality-improvement initiatives. Topics currently addressed online include catheter-associated urinary tract infections, central line-associated blood stream infections, C. difficile infections, deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, hand hygiene, medication safety, multi-drug resistant organisms, sepsis, surgical safety and ventilator-associated pneumonia. Topics will continue to be added, and current topics will be regularly updated and augmented. Hospitals also may use the site to share implementation examples. By sharing "lessons learned," hospitals will reduce resource expenditures through more efficient implementation. Implementation examples may be sent to CHPSO at info@chpso.org. For a form to assist hospitals in creating a report that can be shared, visit the CHPSO website at http://www.chpso.org/impexes.doc.
CHPSO to hold free web seminars on services. The California Hospital Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO) and its data partner, Quantros, will hold two complimentary web seminars to introduce hospitals to CHPSO information services. For more information and to register, contact La Shon Tate at ltate@calhospital.org or (916) 552-7616).
CHPSO Patient Safety News, Volume 1, Number 9. The ninth monthly edition of CHPSO Patient Safety News has been released.
2009 edition of WHO Safe Surgery Checklist now available. The 2009 edition of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, implementation manual and WHO Guidelines for Safe Surgery are now available for download. The changes from the original 2008 version are minor, but do help to clarify the steps to performing the checklist.
AHRQ Patient Safety Network News
Keeping an eye on patient safety using human factors engineering (HFE): a family affair for the hospitalized child. Wilson BL. J Spec Pediatr Nurs. 2010;15:84-87.
Medical librarians supporting information systems project lifecycles toward improved patient safety. Saimbert MK, Zhang Y, Pierce J, Moncrief ES, O'Hagan KB, Cole P. J Healthc Inf Manag. 2010;24:52-56.
Patient safety and diagnostic error: tips for your next shift. Sinclair D, Croskerry P. Can Fam Physician. 2010;56:28-30.
Unintended errors with EHR-based result management: a case series. Yackel TR, Embi PJ. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2010;17:104-107.
The impact of stress on surgical performance: a systematic review of the literature. Arora S, Sevdalis N, Nestel D, Woloshynowych M, Darzi A, Kneebone R. Surgery. 2009 Dec 9; [Epub ahead of print].
Changing cardiac arrest and hospital mortality rates through a medical emergency team takes time and constant review. Santamaria J, Tobin A, Holmes J. Crit Care Med. 2010;38:445-450.
Intensive care unit alarms—how many do we need? Siebig S, Kuhls S, Imhoff M, Gather U, Schölmerich J, Wrede CE. Crit Care Med. 2010;38:451-456.
Is there a benefit to multidisciplinary rounds in an open trauma intensive care unit regarding ventilator-associated pneumonia? Johnson V, Mangram A, Mitchell C, Lorenzo M, Howard D, Dunn E. Am Surg. 2009;75:1171-1174.
Multi-professional patterns and methods of communication during patient handoffs. Benham-Hutchins MM, Effken JA. Int J Med Inform. 2010 Jan 13; [Epub ahead of print].
Organization-wide adoption of computerized provider order entry systems: a study based on diffusion of innovations theory. Rahimi B, Timpka T, Vimarlund V, Uppugunduri S, Svensson M. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2009;9:52.
Patient safety measures in burn care: do national reporting systems accurately reflect quality of burn care? Mandell SP, Robinson EF, Cooper CL, Klein MB, Gibran NS. J Burn Care Res. 2010;31:125-129.
Physicians' beliefs about using EMR and CPOE: in pursuit of a contextualized understanding of health IT use behavior. Holden RJ. Int J Med Inform. 2010 Jan 11; [Epub ahead of print].
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