Sifting through safety reports at your facility in search of
significant issues is daunting. CHPSO shares the challenge: we
have about 870,000 reports and more arrive daily.
This challenge is also an opportunity, as we aggregate
information from hundreds of providers, and can observe patterns
and commonalities in risks and causes that may not be obvious at
a single site.
The PSP eBulletin provides readers with a quick snapshot of PSP
program updates, patient safety news, tips you can use, success
stories and upcoming educational activities to ensure the entire
patient safety community remains informed and engaged.
FDA Patient Safety News is a product of the US Federal
Government, and as such is NOT copyrighted or restricted in any
way. We encourage the further use and distribution of the video
or text of the program by anyone – either in its entirety or as
individual stories.
The mission of the ISMP is to advance patient safety worldwide by
empowering the healthcare community, including consumers, to
prevent medication errors.
Medscape from WebMD offers specialists, primary care physicians,
and other health professionals the Web’s most robust and
integrated medical information and educational tools. After a
simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape from WebMD
automatically delivers to you a personalized specialty site that
best fits your registration profile.
Collaborating to create the expertise, information, and tools
that people and communities need to protect their health –
through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and
disability, and preparedness for new health threats.
N.C. Quality Highlights is a monthly newsletter for patient
safety and quality improvement events around the state. We
encourage hospitals, other healthcare settings, organizations and
quality improvement partners to use this newsletter as a means to
share successes, advertise events and to distribute information
on patient safety and quality improvement in our healthcare
system. We appreciate any feedback on the content of this
newsletter and how we can best serve you.
Improving patient safety is one of the most urgent issues facing
healthcare today. Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare (PSQH) is
written for and by people who are involved directly in improving
patient safety and the quality of care.
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within
the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing
leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research
agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based
policy options, providing technical support to countries and
monitoring and assessing health trends.
AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet) is a national web-based
resource featuring the latest news and essential resources on
patient safety. The site offers weekly updates of patient safety
literature, news, tools, and meetings (“What’s New”), and a vast
set of carefully annotated links to important research and other
information on patient safety (“The Collection”).
Sorry Works! makes disclosure a reality for health care
organizations by helping people literally conceptualize
disclosure. For too long, healthcare professionals have
been instructed to “deny and defend” post-event, so, it is
difficult and scary to conceptualize disclosure. This is
where Sorry Works! makes the difference. Sorry Works!
provides high quality content on disclosure and Five-Star for
both acute and long-term care health professionals and their
organizations as well as associated insurance and legal
professionals.
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within
the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing
leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research
agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based
policy options, providing technical support to countries and
monitoring and assessing health trends.
