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

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.

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.

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).

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.

AHRQ’s TeamSTEPPS is a teamwork system designed for health care professionals. It has a three-phased process aimed at creating and sustaining a culture of safety and provides higher quality, safer patient care.

The mission of the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) is to maximize the safe use of medications and to increase awareness of medication errors through open communication, increased reporting and promotion of medication error prevention strategies.

This 10-minute video was developed to highlight key environmental cleaning best practices that should be used in all healthcare settings.

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.

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.

To promote stronger engagement, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed a guide to help patients, families, and health professionals work together as partners to promote improvements in care.

This 11-minute video covers basic practices to prevent the spread of foodborne illnesses, including proper personal hygiene and how to store, prepare, and serve food without cross-contamination.

This 15-minute video covers environmental cleaning and disinfection principles for cleaning dialysis stations between patient treatments and at the end of each treatment day.

Resources related to hand hygiene for health care settings.

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.

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.

This toolkit was developed by OPSC to help Oregon’s ASCs implement infection prevention quality improvement projects, reduce infection risks, and better protect patients.