Downloads
Tools
- AHRQ/RWJF - New patient safety resource for nurses in text or CD-ROM (9/08)
- IHI tool - Adverse Events Prevented Calculator supports quality business case (9/08)
- RWJF - Toolkit to implement quality improvement program (9/08)
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Categorized list of safety tools available free from the Safety Web
(344 KB) (.xls)
AHRQ Evidence Report/Technology Assessment
Number 43
Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety
Practices
- Summary (58 KB)
- Appendix (54 KB)
- Full report (2107 KB)
Documents in Microsoft Word format (*.doc)
- Joint Commission FAQ on tissue storage and issuance (4/6/07) (doc) (65 KB)
- Avoiding Common Safety Mistakes: Best Practices for a Safer Environment. In Outpatient Surgery, December 2002.
- JCAHO National Patient Safety Goals
- Patient Safety Program Tool Kit for "Getting Started"
- 2002 Premier Policy Position Statement
- 2001 Premier Policy Position Statement and June Update
- Current Research on Patient Safety in the United States
- Generic Safety Plan: Template
- Organized Assignments for Accompanying Patient Safety Plan or Program
- Checklist for Patient Safety and JCAHO standards
- ISMP Alert From the November 17, 1999 issue
- Job Description for Chief Quality and Safety Officer: Template
- ACEP Patient Safety Program
- VA Risk Management Program
- VA RM Program, Physical restraint monitoring tool
Documents in Microsoft PowerPoint format (*.ppt)
- The Basics of Patient Safety
- Comprehensive Medical Safety Program
- A Safety Network: Proposed Information Content
Documents in portable document format (*.pdf)
Require Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Executive summary - Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series
- JCAHO policy on sentinel events
- 2007 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG)
- Potential 2008 National Patient Safety Goals and Requirements
- "Role of Patient Advocate" brochure
- ECRI Disclosure of unanticipated outcomes
- IOM-2 User's Manual
- Executive Summary: To Err is Human
- CDC Press Release: Hospital Infection Rates Decline Using CDC Model Program
- Improving Quality, Minimizing Error: Making It Happen
- 2002 Premier Policy Position Statement
- 2001 Premier Policy Position Statement and June Update
- Reducing Medical Errors and Improving Patient Safety
- Executive Summary: Crossing the Quality Chasm
- Doing What Counts for Patient Safety: Federal Actions to Reduce Medical Errors and Their Impact
- AHRQ: Patient Safety Taskforce Fact Sheet
- ASHRM: Perspective on Disclosure of Unanticipated Outcome information
- AHRQ Evidence Report 43, Clinical practices (2107 KB)
- VA Patient Safety Handbook
- ANA Health and Safety Survey summary
- VA Risk Management and Patient Safety Brochure
- MedPac Congress Quality
- AHA VHA Patient Safety Assessment Tool