Health, Public Health and Safety, Patient Safety
- Provides accreditation to protect the safety and rights of participants in clinical trials and research programs in public and private hospitals, academic medical centers, and other research facilities in the United States and abroad.
- Device that safeguards power supply to vital apparatus at the patient's bedside and prevents accidental disconnection.
- Conference home page for the patient safety / errors in health care conference series presented by the National Patient Safety Foundation, Annenberg Center for Health Sciences, and other medical and health care organizations, government agencies, and corp
- Provides information on a rescue device that protects the patient/casualty and also the operator.
- Provides consulting assistance in medical software And devices; services include user interface design, usability testing, and human factors program development.
- Provides overview of FDA regulations defining the Institutional Review Board (IRB); site includes links to relevant literature, research, and resources on the IRB process.
- Provides multimedia, interactive, informational programs for the healthcare industry; services enhance patient safety, improve clinical care, and reduce risk exposure.
- Web-based patient safety resource and journal that showcases patient safety lessons drawn from actual cases of medical errors; site includes cases of medical errors, expert commentaries, and a users' forum.
- Supports clinicians in providing safe patient care by designing and testing clinical innovations, technological solutions, and patient safety improvement systems. Research targets the frail elderly and persons with disabilities.
- Offers medical identification cards containing patient-specific medical information to assist resuce personnel.
- Provides safety awareness training that identifies behaviors common in 90% of all patient injuries and medication errors for clinical staff and other health care personnel. Focuses on the human side of safety.
- Promotes an open culture in hospitals, encouraging doctors and other staff to report incidents and "near misses," when things almost go wrong. Encourages staff to report incidents without fear of personal reprimand and know that by sharing thei
- Forum for health professionals to discuss issues pertaining to patient safety and quality in health care.
- The Strategic Alliance For Error Reduction in California Healthcare (SAFER) promotes and coordinates patient safety research activities, clinical delivery systems, and educational programs. Includes University of California medical centers, state agencie
- National network to advance responsible and ethical medical research practices and empowers patients with information they need to make informed research choices.
- Products to provide mobile access to patient data and medical references, support diagnosis and treatment decisions and enhance clinical performance.
- Information, research, and resources on professional, consumer, and systems issues related to patient safety. The online discussion forum is devoted to development of a safer health care system.
- Issued periodically to disseminate patient safety news and information; features research findings, new product announcements, and updates on initiatives in the safety and quality field.
- Provides cure research information for more than 1200 diseases.
- Analyzes controlled observational studies, clinical trials, and peer-reviewed medical literature on practices relevant to improving patient safety. Focuses on prevention of errors and adverse events.
- Provides information about adverse drug events and their prevention to healthcare practitioners and institutions, regulatory agencies, professional organizations and the pharmaceutical industry. Includes research findings, books and publications, an ele
- Offers a variety of wireless monitoring systems to assist healthcare organizations improve patient safety, prevent falls, and reduce reliance upon restraints; site includes training and education resources.
- Televised series carried on satellite broadcast networks for health care personnel at hospitals and other medical facilities across the country. Features information on new medical devices, FDA safety notifications and product recalls, and ways to prote
- Patient Safety: medical error, medication error, medical equipment failure, root cause analysis, human factors, usability, physician error, pharmacy error, nursing error, iatrogenesis, failure mode analysis
- Provides integrated technology solutions and consulting services to improve quality and operating performance of emergency departments.
- Provides a medical information system with immediate worldwide compatibility. System utilizes existing Internet/Intranet technology and unique controls providing the foremost level of security.
- Prepared by the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC), proposes strong action on Institute of Medicine recommendations to promote safer health care.
- A voluntary, confidential, non-punitive program available to all VA employees for the reporting of events and concerns related to patient safety.
- Offers alternatives to traditional medical ID tags; provides a highly-visible medical emblem which can attach to jewelry, keys, cell phones, insulin pumps and driver's licenses.
- Lists web site addresses of U.S. hospitals; updated regularly.
- The Medical Product Surveillance Network (MedSun) supports FDA post-market surveillance; activities include identification, analysis, and dissemination of information about problems with the use of medical devices.
- Focuses on the study and reporting of medical errors that lead to disease and death; includes links to related sites and resources.
- Ensures that Federal agencies involved in purchasing, providing, studying, or regulating health care services are working in a coordinated manner toward the common goal of improving quality care.
- Provides research findings and instructions on effective ways to communicate information about health care quality to consumers and develop health plan report cards.
- Promotes clinical research, consumer education and advocacy for self-directed, patient-centered health care; site includes consulting services and links to relevant resources.
- A monthly journal presenting peer-reviewed ideas, solutions and practices in the field of patient safety and quality improvement.
- Promotes improvements in the safety of health care by giving consumers data to make more informed hospital choices. Includes hospital survey results, patient safety research, and links to related sites.
- Provides a free, convenient and reliable way to keep friends and family updated on the condition of a hospitalized loved one.
- Promotes patient safety by encouraging collaboration between participants of the Minnesota health care system. Includes organizational assessment tools, information on best practices, and links to related resources.
- Provides information to educate patients and consumers on the health care process, including links to research and support resources.
- Provides consulting services and information resources to help hospitals and health systems improve clinical effectiveness and operational performance.
- Assesses quality of health care for federal and state agencies, providers, managed care organizations, commercial insurers, Fortune 500 companies, business coalitions and unions. Services include utilization review, study design, data analysis, and claim
- Home page for coalition of healthcare professionals and organizations formed to promote patient safety in Colorado.
- Defines and promotes changes necessary to create a "blame free" culture that encourages reporting and learning from mistakes, near misses and mishaps. Provides the link between UCLA Healthcare and the University of California patient safety eff
- Lists web site addresses of international hospitals; updated regularly.
- Conducts research that will transform medical training from the current apprentice model to real-time computer-based medical simulations; objectives include improving medical education and increasing patient safety.
- Describes this US hospital chain's medication and patient safety practices, and provides general information about the subject.
- Provides leadership in the reduction of harm to patients in all health care environments and provides incident reporting and monitoring systems. Collects de-identified incident report data for inclusion in an aggregated database that facilitates compara
- A patient-centered initiative to advance the reliability of healthcare systems worldwide. Includes videos, audio cassettes, and CD-ROM training tools.
- Supports professional practice of pharmacists in hospitals and health systems and promotes issues related to medication use and public health. Includes research, links, and informative brochures.
- Provides broad range of safety and quality information for patients, clinicians, and healthcare administrators; online and in print format.
- Supports regional patient safety initiatives by encouraging collaborative efforts, disseminating current knowledge relating to patient safety, and developing a formal structure for activities.
- Assists perioperative nurses, managers and practitioners in providing safe patient care. Offers resources related to patient safety in surgical settings, including lists of educational products and resources, articles, and links to national patient safet
- Quality of care, professional performance, science of quality improvement, and safety of care educational site for healthcare professionals and patients.
- Multi-disciplinary voluntary international organization promoting quality health care through infection control and epidemiology in all health settings. Includes links, tools, archives and information resources.
- Offers consulting assistance in development of a comprehensive blood conservation, bloodless approach to healthcare in a bio-ethically safe environment of care.
- Promotes development of data standards applicable to the collection, coding and classification of patient safety information. The plan will apply to both adverse event data and errors data.
- Offers consulting services on safety and benefit/effectiveness of marketed medications; resources include evaluation, investigation and scientific follow-up methodologies.
- Improves safety and quality of care for patients and residents in health care organizations through accreditation and performance improvement.
- Updated list of recent patient safety news, journal articles, and conferences.
- Offers downloadable eBook that teaches users how to recognize and prevent medical mistakes; site resources include free newsletter.
- Provides updates on medication safety issues to alert nurses to hazards, identify systems problems, and improve patient safety; written and edited by nurses.
- Promotes change through development and implementation of a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting.
- Provides real-time, secure, patient-centric clinical information in five areas critical for delivering quality care: diagnoses, laboratory results, medications, allergies and immunizations.
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