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Video: Best Practices for Blood Glucose Monitoring
This 10-minute video from Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC) and the Oregon Healthcare-Associated Infection Program at the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) provides best practices that can be implemented in any healthcare setting to prevent infection during blood glucose monitoring and insulin administration.
Human Factors Matrix
A matrix to help healthcare professionals apply human factors principles during root cause analysis to identify strong strategies to improve patient safety.
Video: Environmental Cleaning Basics for Perioperative Areas: Part 2
This 7-minute training video is designed for perioperative staff and environmental services staff working in the perioperative area and can help these healthcare team members provide a clean and safe environment for their patients.
CUSP Toolkit
The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) is a method that can help clinical teams make care safer by combining improved teamwork, clinical best practices, and the science of safety.
Video: Environmental Cleaning Basics for Perioperative Areas: Part 1
This 11-minute video is designed for perioperative staff and environmental services staff working in the perioperative area and can help these healthcare team members provide a clean and safe environment for their patients.
Be Antibiotics Aware
Be Antibiotics Aware is a national effort to help fight antibiotic resistance and improve antibiotic prescribing and use.
Antibiotic Stewardship Driver Diagram and Change Package
A framework to reduce inappropriate antibiotic utilization in hospitals, prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
ThinkReliability
ThinkReliability provides consultation and instruction through Cause Mapping workshops focused on how to thoroughly investigate and prevent everything from day-to-day recurring problems to catastrophic events.
Plan-Do-Study-Act Worksheet
The The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Worksheet is a useful tool for documenting a test of change.
How to Improve: Model for Improvement
This resource on IHI’s website provides information about The Model for Improvement, a simple yet powerful tool for accelerating improvement in healthcare organizations.
Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality aims to reduce preventable harm, improve clinical outcomes and experiences and reduce waste in health care delivery at Johns Hopkins and around the world.
“Speak Up for Patient Safety” Training Materials
Presentation slides and materials packet from OPSC’s one-day course on communicating before, during, and after an adverse event.
AHRQ’s Healthcare-Associated Infections Program
This toolkit assists hospital staff and leadership in developing an effective antimicrobial stewardship program with the potential to reduce C. difficile.
AHRQ Safety Program for End-Stage Renal Disease Facilities Toolkit
The ESRD Toolkit was created to help end-stage renal disease clinics prevent healthcare-associated infections in dialysis patients.
Oregon Health and Science University Pacific Northwest Evidence-Based Practice Center
The Oregon Health and Science University Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center conducts systematic reviews of health care topics for federal and state agencies, professional associations, and foundations.
ASC and Nursing Facility Knowledge Share Series
The Knowledge Share Webinar Series provides free infection prevention training designed by the Oregon Patient Safety Commission for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and nursing facilities in Oregon.
AHRQ Pharmacy Health Literacy Center
This site provides pharmacists with recently released health literacy tools and other resources from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
PDSA Cycle Gift Wrapping Activity
This exercise is a fun team building activity that also allows participants to work through the different stages of the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle.
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.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
The mission of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is to improve health and health care worldwide.
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