Patient Safety Websites
AHRQ
www.ahrq.gov
The Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality Web site provides practical health care information, research
findings, and data to help consumers, health providers, health insurers,
researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues.
Association
for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
http://www.apic.org/
APIC's mission is to improve health
and patient safety by reducing risks of infection and other adverse outcomes.
The Association's more than 11,000 members have primary responsibility for
infection prevention, control and hospital epidemiology in health care settings
around the globe, and include nurses, epidemiologists, physicians,
microbiologists, clinical pathologists, laboratory technologists and public
health practitioners. APIC advances its mission through education, research,
collaboration, practice guidance and credentialing.
Aviation
Patient Safety
www.AviationPatientSafety.com
Commercial airlines
use crew resource management (CRM)/ human factors to train flight crews to work
together in the interest of flight safety. These same procedures can be employed
by hospitals in the interest of patient safety by reducing medical errors.
Centers for Disease
Control (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/
CDC is globally recognized for its research and findings to
prevent and control infectious and chronic diseases, injuries, disabilities,
etc. To achieve true improvements in the health of people, CDC is defining
health impact goals to measure progress. This site provides some links to some
of the main patient safety reports.
Institute
for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
www.ihi.org
The Institute for
Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is a not-for-profit organization leading the
improvement of health care throughout the world. IHI was founded in 1991 and is
based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The main topics of this site are improvement
methods and patient safety.
Leapfrog Group
www.leapfroggroup.org
The Leapfrog Group has been creating breakthrough leaps to improve the safety,
quality and affordability of healthcare since 2000. The group ranks
participating healthcare organizations on how well they meet quality and safety
standards that have been proven to improve patient outcomes. Quality measures
include: an overall quality index score, reported outcomes for specific surgical
procedures, training staff of Intensive Care Units, and use of a computerized
physician order entry system.
Management Training Courses
http://www.m-t-d.co.uk
This site
offers management development courses and programmes throughout the UK, Europe
and the Middle East. Mtd provides a wide range of management training courses
and programmes that will enable your managers to maximise their potential by
gaining or refining their management skills.
National Quality
Forum (NQF)
www.qualityforum.org
NQF, a not-for-profit membership organization, was created to implement a
national strategy for healthcare quality measurement and reporting. NQF works to
promote a common approach to measuring healthcare quality and fostering
system-wide capacity for quality improvement.
saferhealthcare
http://www.saferhealthcare.org.uk/
saferhealthcare is a free,
editorially independent online resource for all healthcare professionals
(doctors, nurses, managers, pharmacists and others) publishing real life stories
and evidence based research and tools to help improve patient safety. Users can
register to take advantage of the discussion boards and "find a colleague"
functionality. The site is a partnership between the UK National Patient Safety
Agency
(
http://www.npsa.nhs.uk)
and the BMJ Publishing Group (www.bmjpg.com)
The Australian Patient Safety Foundation (APSF)
http://www.apsf.net.au
APSF is an
independent, incorporated, non-profit organisation. It has been engaged in the
process of finding problems and proposing and developing solutions for patient
safety for 18 years. The APSF has established systems to collate and analyse
information relating to patient safety issues. From this base, the APSF is able
to support the development of strategies to better detect, manage and avoid
preventable harm and to make a better and safer place for patients and residents
of health care and residential care facilities. These solutions can include
technical (developing algorithms for standardised practice), organisational
(embedding tools such as incident management systems), cultural (changing norms
to encourage reporting of problems) and regulatory solutions. Our core purpose
is the elimination of preventable harm in the health care environment and our
philosophy is
to continuously seek better ways of achieving this aim. Apart from the work in
analysis and research, the APSF has developed (and commercialized) an incident
reporting system called AIMS (www.patientsafetyint.com)
which gives healthcare organisations the ability to capture their incident
information in a meaningful way.
The National Initiative for Children's
Healthcare Quality (NICHQ)
www.nichq.org
The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) is an
action-oriented, not-for-profit organization dedicated solely to improving the
quality of health care provided to children. Founded in 1999, NICHQ's mission is
to eliminate the gap between what is and what can be in health care for all
children. A national organization with its home office in Cambridge, MA, NICHQ
works with staff and faculty across the country. The main topics of this site
are improvement methods and patient safety for children.
The Patient Safety
Group
http://www.patientsafetygroup.org
The Patient Safety Group worked with Johns Hopkins to
create the online version (eCUSP) of Hopkins’ comprehensive unit-based safety
program allowing healthcare organizations the opportunity to manage, monitor,
record, account for and share the safety and quality efforts undertaken
throughout the organization. eCUSP provides a collaborative environment for
teams to complete safety and improvement projects.
United
States Department of Veterans Affairs
www.va.gov
The US Dept. of Veterans Affairs
provides a wealth information regarding benefits, services, on-line applications
and programs offered by the department to veterans and their family members.
Well Being Spot
http://www.wellbeingspot.com.au/
WellbeingSPOT.com.au is an online resource for health and
wellbeing. Free health service business classifieds. Free health product
classifieds.
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www.societylinks.net
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