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Safety Share article archive
Topic - select a topic below to see a list of related articles.
Back injury Bar coding and UDI Bariatrics Building environment and construction issues Bulletins CDC CPOE Dental health care Disclosure Environmental safety EPA EPP related articles Ethics Emergency department	Emergency preparedness Falls FDA Guidelines Hand hygiene HAI - Healthcare-associated infections Hazardous materials Healthcare worker safety HIPAA IHI Infection prevention IOM JCAHO Medical device issues Medical errors Mobile phones Mortality	NIOSH Nursing Obesity OSHA Patient safety - general Patient safety - interventions Patient safety - medication safety Quality of care Root cause analysis Recalls Reprocessing Safety culture Sharps injury prevention Staffing Success stories UDI Universal surgical protocol (USP)

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Safety tools
Each issue of Safety Share contains four to five popular and frequently used safety tools and resources on patient, worker and environmental safety. This safety tool archive is a compilation of all the safety tools and resources from January 2002 to the present. Select a topic below to see a list of related tools, or download an Excel spreadsheet listing each tool by category (.xls) (346 KB).
Adverse drug events Adverse medical events AHRQ Air filtration Anesthesiologists Bar coding Bed safety Bioterrorism Bloodborne pathogen CDC Cell phones Chemical agents Clinician registry Colloquium Communication Community hospitals CPOE Disaster drill Disaster readiness Disclosure Do no harm ECRI Effects analysis Emergency department Emergency response End-of-Life Environmentally preferred products Environmental safety E-prescribing Ergonomics Evacuation planning Facilities Failure mode Fire safety	FDA Hand hygiene Hazardous materials HIV/AIDS HVAC IHI Influenza Infection prevention Infusion pumps ISMP JCAHO Law guide Magnetic resonance Medical errors Medical device issues Medication safety Mercury exposure National Symposium NIOSH Nursing homes Office practice Operating rooms Operating room safety OR design OSHA bulletins: CBRN respirators and West Nile virus P4PS Patient access Patient advocate Patient controlled analgesia Patient safety Patient safety goals	Patient safety program PCA pumps Pediatrics Pesticides Quality of care Quality measures Radiation safety Reprocessing Restraint Risk management Safety Safety climate Safety survey SARS Seclusion Security Safety information Sharps disposal containers Sharps injury prevention Single use devices Smallpox Standing orders Surgery Surgical site infection Triage tool Trigger tool Unexpected events Vaccination Vaccine Wrong site surgery

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Bulletin archive
Occasionally special bulletins of important safety-related information is distributed to Safety Share subscribers.  Listed below are all of our special bulletins.
Most recent Safety Share bulletin Mastering the new CMS regulation: Implications for infection prevention and control September 22-23, 2008, Arlington VA (8/6/08) Previous bulletins Complimentary audio conference: VTE Prevention: from quality to safety (5/5/08) NPSF 2008 Annual Patient Safety Congress (4/22/08) AHRQ releases 2008 benchmarking data on safety culture (4/16/08) NPSF 2008 Congress: early-bird registration now open and poster deadline extended (2/5/08) Free audio-conference: 2008 Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals for anticoagulation therapy (01/18/08) New needlestick prevention brochure from Premier (9/5/07) Free admission to Premier educational program: HAI (5/29/07) AHRQ Announces Call for Papers for Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches (4/9/07) NPSF 2007 Congress: Call for posters, early registration (1/4/07) Free audio conference: Infection control surveillance automation (11/17/06) Device recall survey (10/20/06) Webcast: Better quality can cost less and saves lives (10/2/06) Safety Institute Web site: New, updated resources (8/11/06) Performance Pays: High quality care cost less and saves lives (6/16/06) Free audio conference: Impact of adverse events – Results from Tufts-New England Medical Center study using electronic incident reporting (3/27/06) JCAHO clarifies position on alcohol hand sanitizers – foam and gel now permitted in corridors (3/15/06) Patient and environmental health and safety (2/16/06) NPSF 2006 Congress: Call for posters and early-bird registration (2/7/06) CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration - Year 1 Results (11/21/05) Premier audio conference: SCIP – A National Quality Partnership (10/10/05) The safety and quality continuum – using an electronic incident record to aggregate disparate data (9/26/05) Key hurricane resources - Links and downloads (9/14/05) Premier audio conference: Reduce Length of Stay, Improve Quality with Data and Best Practices (8/4/05) Patient safety culture survey tool available in Spanish (7/13/05) Premier audio conference: From SIP to SCIP: Preparing for additions to the Surgical Infection Prevention (SIP) measures under the CMS 8th Scope of Work (6/9/05) AHRQ's June 6-10 Patient Safety and Health IT Conference (5/24/05) Premier audio conference: "Achieving Clinical and Operational Excellence in the Emergency Department" (4/28/05) 'Taking Action' - telephone briefing on the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (4/14/05) Premier audio conference: IHI 100,000 Lives Campaign (3/30/05) Register now for 2005 NPSF Congress: May 4-6, Orlando (3/24/05) Premier offers culture survey data tool (3/2/05) Free audio conference: Improving patient safety through automated incident/error reporting and root cause analysis (2/23/05) Free audio conference: Hardwiring Labor Management for quality, safety, and efficiency (1/25/05) February 15 audio conference - safety culture survey (1/14/05) NPSF 2005 Congress: Call for posters and early-bird registration (1/03/05) Free audio conference: Engaging physicians (12/20/04) A safe environment fosters patient safety (11/30/04) Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (11/10/04) Free audio conference: Performance dashboards (10/26/04) Register for 2004 Quality Colloquium, a safety, error reduction education opportunity set for August 22-25 (6/18/04) Bulletin: A major win for alcohol hand rub dispenser placement (4/28/04) NPSF Patient Safety Congress, May 3-7, 2004, Boston (2/3/04) CDC releases full environmental infection control guidelines (12/4/03) FluMist not recommended for healthcare personnel (10/17/03) AHA-ASHE-CDC collaborate with fire safety experts on alcohol-based hand rubs – code changes likely (9/16/03) Premier earns national recognition for environmental leadership efforts (4/30/03) Patient safety awareness week - March 9-15, 2003 (3/5/03) Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) hosting Mini-Series at NPSF Patient Safety Congress (2/5/03) Free CD from 2002 ‘Partnership Symposium’ on Safety (2/4/03) NPSF Patient Safety Congress - March 12-15, 2003 - Register now! (1/30/03) NPSF Patient Safety Congress - March 2003 - Register now! (12/12/02) Patient safety conferences in October (9/9/02) CDC plans broadcasts: Disaster Grants and Immunizations Update (8/12/02) Deadline extended for interactive learning proposals for symposium (6/18/02)

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Issue archive
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2002
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