Other Patient Safety Concerns and Topics
Also see Infection Prevention for more resources!
Also see Infection Prevention for more resources!
High reliability organizations are organizations that operate in complex, high-hazard domains for extended periods without serious accidents or catastrophic failures. High reliability organizations cultivate resilience by relentlessly prioritizing safety over other performance pressures.
The Hospital Safety Score grades hospitals on how safe they keep their patients from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, a staff survey designed to help hospitals assess the culture of safety in their institutions.
This is a two page guide to Moderate Sedation for Non-Anesthesiologists from the VA National Center for Patient Safety.
AHRQ sponsored the development of the Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture. This new survey is designed specifically for nursing home providers and staff and asks for their opinions about the culture of patient safety in their nursing home.
Patient Harm and Deaths from Healthcare in America
Patient Safety Primers guide you through key concepts in patient safety. Each primer defines a topic, offers background information on its epidemiology and context, and highlights relevant content from both AHRQ PSNet and AHRQ WebM&M.
Per OSHA - Medical catheters are tubes used in healthcare to deliver intravenous fluids and medications or to drain body fluids. Examples include vascular access devices and chest drainage tubes.
Surgical Safety Checklists
Traditional transcription methods and the use of voice or speech recognition technology (SRT) for health care documentation have put patients at risk for injury and death.
Waste Anesthetic Gases