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The Oregon Wellness Program (OWP) promotes Oregon Healthcare Professionals’ well-being through education, coordinated regional counseling services, telemedicine services and research.
System-Focused Event Investigation and Analysis Guide, AHRQ Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR) Toolkit: The "Solutions Meeting" section of this guide (and Appendix F) offer a walk-through on how to run an action planning meeting. It includes brainstorming, evaluating solutions for effectiveness and sustainability, measurement, and a description of the expected outputs.
Quality improvement (QI) projects often use surveys to gather data, but expertise in survey design isn’t always available to every project team. A recent study(1) illustrates the unpredictable quality of locally developed surveys for QI, showing that development of surveys requires special expertise in addition to careful consideration and time.
Clinical assessments play a vital role in providing the information healthcare professionals need to better care for patients. And while clinical assessments include such important data as function, behavior, and personal history, many of these tools also include an evaluation of skin color.
In this episode of the Tradeoffs podcast, we hear from Dr. Jeff Goldenberg and Naomi Kirtner, who lost a child to medical error.
This 8-minute training video covers basic infection control practices for healthcare laundry service areas and is designed for all staff involved in the laundering process.
This guidebook will help health care organizations of any size engage in organizational change to become health literate.
In a culture of safety, people are not merely encouraged to work toward change; they take action when it is needed. Inaction in the face of safety problems is taboo, and eventually the pressure comes from all directions — from peers as well as leaders.
Use ISMP's List of High-Alert Medications in Acute Care Settings to determine which medications in your organization require special safeguards to reduce the risk of errors and minimize harm.