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Building Health Literate Organizations: A Guidebook to Achieving Organizational Change
This guidebook will help health care organizations of any size engage in organizational change to become health literate.
High-Alert Medications in Acute Care Settings
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.
List of Confused Drug Names
Use this list to determine which medications require special safeguards to reduce the risk of errors and minimize harm.
Improving Diagnosis in Health Care
Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, is a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001).
Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections
These guidelines have been developed for healthcare personnel who insert intravascular catheters and for persons responsible for surveillance and control of infections in hospital, outpatient, and home healthcare settings.
Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report
This final report summarizes the progress that was made during the On the CUSP: Stop BSI project, a unique partnership with the Health Research & Educational Trust, the Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research Group, and the Michigan Health & Hospital Association's Keystone Center for Patient Safety & Quality.
Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities
This guideline presents evidence-based recommendations on the preferred methods for cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of patient-care medical devices and for cleaning and disinfecting the healthcare environment.
Free from Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement Fifteen Years After “To Err Is Human”
The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) convened an expert panel in February 2015 to assess the state of the patient safety field and set the stage for the next 15 years of work. The resulting report produced eight recommendations.
Statement on Preventing Harm from Oversedation
Published by OPSC, the Statement on Preventing Harm from Oversedation is a starting point for hospitals to use in efforts to decrease patient harm associated with sedation.
Communication and Resolution Programs (CRPs)
Despite the best intentions, healthcare does not always go as planned, which can result in harm to patients. CRPs offer healthcare organizations a more compassionate, patient-centered response that ultimately improves safety for patients in the future.
A Daughter’s Frustration with the Dearth of Patient—and Family—Centered Care
2014 Patient Experience Journal paper that gives a first person account of a hospitalization that lacked patient-centered care and provides resources for hospitals.
Patient Safety Network Primers
The Patient Safety 101 Primer provides an overview of the patient safety field and covers key definitions and concepts.
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