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Oregon Patient Safety Commission 10/3/22 Oregon Patient Safety Commission 10/3/22

October is Health Literacy Month: Working Together to Increase Health Literacy and Advance Health Equity

Oregon Patient Safety Commission 9/29/22 Oregon Patient Safety Commission 9/29/22

A Patient Safety Toolkit for Family Practices

Oregon Patient Safety Commission 9/29/22 Oregon Patient Safety Commission 9/29/22

Toolkit to Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers

Oregon Patient Safety Commission 9/29/22 Oregon Patient Safety Commission 9/29/22

Patient Safety Primer: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Safety of Older Adults

Oregon Patient Safety Commission 9/7/22 Oregon Patient Safety Commission 9/7/22

September is Sepsis Awareness Month

Oregon Patient Safety Commission 8/2/22 Oregon Patient Safety Commission 8/2/22

Improve Your Falls Prevention Initiatives

Guest User 10/1/21 Guest User 10/1/21

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.

Stephanie Warren 9/28/21 Stephanie Warren 9/28/21

Clinician Support: Five Years of Lessons Learned

This article published in Patient Safety & Quality analyzes the success of the YOU Team’s five-year experience in providing clinician support.

Stephanie Warren 9/28/21 Stephanie Warren 9/28/21

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.

Stephanie Warren 9/28/21 Stephanie Warren 9/28/21

List of Confused Drug Names

Use this list to determine which medications require special safeguards to reduce the risk of errors and minimize harm.

Stephanie Warren 9/28/21 Stephanie Warren 9/28/21

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.

Stephanie Warren 9/24/21 Stephanie Warren 9/24/21

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).

Stephanie Warren 9/22/21 Stephanie Warren 9/22/21

Patient Safety Network Primers

The Patient Safety 101 Primer provides an overview of the patient safety field and covers key definitions and concepts.

Stephanie Warren 9/22/21 Stephanie Warren 9/22/21

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.

Stephanie Warren 9/22/21 Stephanie Warren 9/22/21

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.

Stephanie Warren 9/21/21 Stephanie Warren 9/21/21

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.

Stephanie Warren 9/17/21 Stephanie Warren 9/17/21

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.

Stephanie Warren 9/16/21 Stephanie Warren 9/16/21

Communication and Resolution Programs

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.

Stephanie Warren 8/31/21 Stephanie Warren 8/31/21

Diseases and Organisms in Healthcare Settings

Modern healthcare employs many types of invasive devices and procedures to treat patients and to help them recover. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works to monitor and prevent these different types of diseases and infections because they are an important threat to patient safety.

Guest User 8/26/21 Guest User 8/26/21

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.