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RESOURCES: ESSENTIAL LINKS

• Institute of Medicine's To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System
• IOM Report #2: Overhauling US Health Care
• AHRQ: Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices
• VIPC&S Patient Guide: Be Involved in Your Health Care

PATIENT SAFETY LEGISLATION:

• Virginia Joint Commission on Health Care
  Patient Safety and Medical Errors Study
  • Issue Brief (pdf)
  • Slide Presentation (pdf)
  • Public Comments on Patient Safety (pdf), Patrick W. Finnerty
• Virginia General Assembly: HJ 9 Study; patient safety and medical errors | SB 316 Civil law; immunity in sharing patient safety information

PATIENT SAFETY ORGANIZATIONS:

• National Conferences and Events (290)
• State Patient Safety Organizations (40)
• Virginia Hospitals and Patient Safety Activities (60)
• Patient Safety News |  2003 |  2002  |  2001 (thousands of articles)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Medical Errors & Patient Safety
  • National Summit on Patient Safety Data Collection and Use
  • WebM&M Patient Safety Journal
  • AHRQ Fact Sheets
    • Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices
    • Five Steps to Safer Health Care
    • 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet
    • Medical Errors: The Scope of the Problem
    • Reducing Medical Errors in Health Care: Fact Sheet
    • How Safe is Our Healthcare System
    • How States Can Improve Patient Safety and Reduce Medical Errors
    • Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs
• American Academy of Family Physicians Quality Initiative
  • Developmental Center for Research and Evaluation in Patient Safety – Primary Care
• American Academy of Pediatrics: Quality Improvement and Management
• America’s Health Insurance Plans: The Tools and Techniques of Improved Medication Use
• American College of Physicians: Focus on Patient Safety
• American Health Quality Association | Virginia Health Quality Center
• American Hospital Association: Improving Medication Safety
  • The Quality Initiative: A Public Resource on Hospital Performance
    • also see Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Quality Initiative (HQI))
    • Virginia Hospitals Participating
  • Pathways for Medication Safety
  • Best Practice Case Studies
• American Medical Group Association Quality Management and Research
• American Nurses Association: Safety and Quality
• American Society for Healthcare Risk Management
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Center on Patient Safety 
  • ASHP Pharmacist's Guide to Your Medications
• Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
• Association of Health Care Journalists: Covering the Quality of Health Care — A Resource Guide for Journalists
  •  Medical Errors and Malpractice Deadly mishaps – when medicine does harm
• Association of Perioperative Nurses Patient Safety First
• Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Patient Safety
• Australian Patient Safety Resources
  • Australian Patient Safety Foundation
  • Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care
  • Victorian State Government: Improving Patient Safety in Victorian Hospitals (PDF, 90 pages, Australia)
• British Medical Journal (tons of peer-reviewed articles on this topic)
  • Medical Error Articles
  • Quality Improvement
  • Human error: models and management
  • How to investigate and analyse clinical incidents: Clinical Risk Unit and Association of Litigation and Risk Management protocol 
• BrownsPath Patient Safety Training Resource
• California HealthCare Foundation Addressing Medication Errors in Hospitals: A Practical Tool Kit
• Bird Flu Book
• Center for Proper Medication Use
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Quality Initiative (HQI)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
  • CDC's Seven Healthcare Safety Challenges
• Consumers Advancing Patient Safety
• Consumer Health Information Corporation: Taking Control of Your Medicines and Your Health
  • Taking Control of Your Medicines
• Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project  
• Dartmouth Clinical Microsystems
• Department of Defense Patient Safety Program Patient Safety
• ECRI
  • ECRI’s Patient Safety Center
  • Medical Device Safety Reports
  • Sharps Safety and Needlestick Prevention
• eHealth Initiative
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • FDA Patient Safety News
  • MedWatch: Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program
  • Center for Drug Evaluation and Research 
  • Human Factors Program
  • Make No Mistake: Medical Errors Can Be Deadly Serious
• Foundation for Accountability
• General Electric Black Ink Theme Issue: Patient Safety
• HIMSS | Virginia Chapter
• The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Patient Safety Page
  • Pursuing Perfection Learning Network
  • Improving Chronic Illness Care
• The Institute for Safe Medication Practices
  • Medication Safety Alerts
  • ISMP Medication Safety Self-Assessment
  • Discussion Paper on Adverse Event and Error Reporting in Healthcare
• Institute of Medicine's Special Initiative on Health Care Quality 
  • Quality of Health Care in America Project (IOM To Err and Crossing Quality Chasm)
  • Guidance for Development of Patient Safety Data Standards
• International Alliance for Patient Safety (WHO)
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
  • Patient Safety Page
  • Sentinel Events Alert | Sentinel Event Statistics
  • Speak Up Campaign
  • JCAHO Quality Check
  • JCR Patient Safety Page
• The Josie King Pediatric Patient Safety Program 
• kasierEDU
  • Quality of Care Reference Library
  • Reducing Medical Errors Issue Module
• Leapfrog Group for Patient Safety- Fortune 500 Business Advocacy Group
  • National Healthcare Purchasing Institute   (PDF)
• Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors
  • Medical Errors and Patient Safety in Massachusetts  (PDF, Mass Health Policy Forum, Brandeis)
  • Your Role in Safe Medication Use: A Guide for Patient and Families (patient guide)
• MEDERRORS
  • Bridge Medical
• National Academy for State Health Policy
  • Quality and Patient Safety Publications (free downloads) 
• National Coalition on Health Care: "Reducing Medical Errors and Improving Patient Safety: Success Stories from the Front Lines of Medicine" (PDF)
• National Coordination Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention
  • Recommendations  includes list of dangerous abbreviations
• National Council on Patient Information and Education- Educate Before You Medicate
• National Health Services (UK): Building A Safer NHS For Patients
  • National Patient Safety Agency
  • An Organisation with a Memory
  • Building a Safer NHS for Patients
• National Institute for Clinical Excellence (UK)
• National Patient Safety Foundation
  • Annenberg Conference Summaries
  • Extensive Bibliography
  • Patient Safety Listserve
  • A Tale of Two Stories: Contrasting Views of Patient Safety (PDF, 86 pages)
• National Quality Forum
• Patient Safety Institute
• The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Collaborative: Elements of a Culture of Safety (PDF)
• p4ps (Partnership for Patient Safety)
• Premier Safety Institute
• PREP: The Practitioner Remediation and Enhancement Partnership Pilot Project
• QualityHealthCare.org
• Risk Management Foundation for Patient Safety of the Harvard Medical Institutions
• Sorry Works!
• Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force Report to the President, February 2000
• Talking to Consumers about Health Care Quality
• Uniform Code Council Health Care 
• United States Pharmacopeia Medication Errors Reporting Program
  • Similar Drug Name List March 2001
• University of Virginia Surgical Technology and Safety Laboratory
• Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) National Center for Patient Safety 
  • Triage Cards™
  • Virtual Learning Center
  • VA Patient Safety Center of Inquiry
  • Patient Safety Reporting System (NASA/VA)
  • VA GAPS Center
• VCU Center for Research in Human Simulation 
• Virginia Association of Healthcare Quality
• Virginia Health Information
• Virginia Health Quality Center (QIO)
• Virginia Partnership for Nursing
• Virginia Senior Navigator
• Washington Post: 7 Guidelines for Health on the Web
• World Health Organization Patient Safety
• more links (HealthFinder)
• more links (NPSF bibliography)