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Stephanie Warren 3/5/26 Stephanie Warren 3/5/26

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.

Robin Carter (consultant) 2/24/26 Robin Carter (consultant) 2/24/26

OPSC Patient Safety Minute | Measuring Your Harm Response Process: A Resource to Help

Robin Carter (consultant) 3/4/25 Robin Carter (consultant) 3/4/25

OPSC Patient Safety Minute: Ensuring Consistent Orientation & Training Amid Staffing Challenges

Robin Carter (consultant) 8/29/24 Robin Carter (consultant) 8/29/24

OPSC Patient Safety Minute: Back to Basics—Surgical Fires Are Preventable

Robin Carter (consultant) 6/21/24 Robin Carter (consultant) 6/21/24

Thoughtful Implementation Needed when Considering AI in Patient Safety: Recommendations from an Expert Panel

Robin Carter (consultant) 4/9/24 Robin Carter (consultant) 4/9/24

Recommendations for Your Drug Diversion Program: Tools from ISMP

Robin Carter (consultant) 3/6/24 Robin Carter (consultant) 3/6/24

Design Better, More Effective Quality Improvement Surveys by Avoiding These Errors

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.

Robin Carter (consultant) 1/30/24 Robin Carter (consultant) 1/30/24

New CME Training Series to Operationalize Health Equity

Oregon Patient Safety Commission 4/27/23 Oregon Patient Safety Commission 4/27/23

Improving Diagnostic Safety Practices with the Safer Dx Checklist

Oregon Patient Safety Commission 3/13/23 Oregon Patient Safety Commission 3/13/23

Help Advance Patient Safety with Safer Together

Oregon Patient Safety Commission 11/7/22 Oregon Patient Safety Commission 11/7/22

Advancing Anticoagulation Stewardship with a New Playbook from NQF

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 9/28/22 Oregon Patient Safety Commission 9/28/22

Toolkit to Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers

Stephanie Warren 4/8/22 Stephanie Warren 4/8/22

Develop a Culture of Safety: Safety Briefing Tools

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.

Oregon Patient Safety Commission 2/15/22 Oregon Patient Safety Commission 2/15/22

Establishing Guidewires as “Countable” Items

Guest User 1/27/22 Guest User 1/27/22

Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS)

AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) program was developed to be used by all types of staff in hospitals, nursing homes, medical offices, community pharmacies, and ambulatory surgery centers to assess patient safety culture.

Oregon Patient Safety Commission 1/12/22 Oregon Patient Safety Commission 1/12/22

Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process: A Toolkit for Rapid-Cycle Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

The tools in this step-by-step guide can increase the reliability of the testing process in your office by helping you examine how tests are managed.

Stephanie Warren 11/9/21 Stephanie Warren 11/9/21

Dialysis Safety Resource Center

To help prevent infections in dialysis patients and increase the use of proven practices that cut infection rates in half, the Making Dialysis Safer for Patients Coalition has created the posters, checklists and fact sheets for use in provider’s offices, dialysis clinics, training sessions, and work areas.

Stephanie Warren 10/18/21 Stephanie Warren 10/18/21

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.