Selected resources on patient safety, medical mistakes and errors that put the patient at risk.
A peer-reviewed, Web-based journal showcasing patient safety lessons drawn from real cases of medical errors. This site features expert analysis of medical errors reported anonymously by readers, interactive learning modules on patient safety, and forums for online discussion. Links to resources for those interested in medical errors and patient safety are provided.
Format: Journal
Provider: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The mission of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation is to ensure that no patient shall be harmed by anesthesia. The purposes of APSF are to: foster investigations that will provide a better understanding of preventable anesthetic injuries; encourage programs that will reduce the number of anesthetic injuries; and promote national and international communication of information and ideas about the causes and prevention of anesthetic morbidity and mortality.
Format: Website
Provider: Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
This is an appendix to "
The Effect of Health Care Working Conditions on Patient Safety," a publication of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. These search filters, hedges, and strategies are used to access information contained in the international
Campbell Collaboration (C2), a non-profit organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas. The Collaboration's objectives are to prepare, maintain and disseminate systematic reviews of studies of interventions. They acquire and promote access to information about trials of interventions and build summaries and electronic brochures of reviews and reports of trials for policy makers and researchers and the public.
Format: Website
Provider: National Center for Biotechnology Information
Center for Drug Research and Evaluation site for medication errors.
Format: Website
Provider: Center for Drug Research and Evaluation
Policy actions and onging challenges in patient safety issues in the Duke University Health System.
Format: Other
Provider: Duke University Health System
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Duke Hospital's initiatives towards creating a culture and teams for patient safety.
Format: Website
Provider: Duke University Health System
The Department supports Duke University Hospital as a resource for patient safety, performance improvement and regulatory affairs. This site contains resources regarding accreditation and patient safety for the hospital and the health system with related national and local links.
Format: Website
Provider: Duke University Hospital
Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety
This book moves beyond the "how and why" medical errors occur in hospital settings. Instead, it offers innovative, valuable and useful ideas on how to create a safe environment for patient care.
Format: Book
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Provider: Jossey-Bass
A televised series for health care personnel, carried on satellite broadcast networks aimed at hospitals and other medical facilities across the country. It features information on new drugs, biologics and medical devices, on FDA safety notifications and product recalls, and on ways to protect patients when using medical products. A free monthly podcast is available.
Format: Website
Provider: Food and Drug Administration
First Do No Harm: A Practical Guide to Medication Safety and JCAHO Compliance
Profiles organizations that are putting landmark thinking into patient safety. Includes a section on reporting programs for adverse drug events from MedWatch.
Format: Book
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Provider: Opus Communications
The Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center is a joint project of the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, and the Department of Anesthesiology at Duke University. The lab is committed to advancing the state-of-the-art in medical education and educational technologies.
Format: Website
Provider: Duke University Human Simulation & Patient Safety Center
A collection of content IHI evaluated — including change concepts, measures, resources, improvement stories, and downloadable tools — to help you improve patient safety in your organization.
Format: Website
Provider: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
A nonprofit organization educating the healthcare community about safe medication practices. The institute tracks published medical dosage errors. The link, "Textbook Errata," lists corrections when a medication dosing error or other serious error has been identified in a published article or textbook. This site also links to medication safety alerts which are listed by date since 1996
Format: Website
Provider: Institute for Safe Medication Practices
This website ids designed to serve as a central repository of resources and information related to all all aspects of patient safety. Its content aims to be relevant for patients, employers, physicians, and pharmacists, as well as all types of healthcare organizations worldwide.
Format: Website
Provider: Joint Commission International Cener for Patient Safety
A project of AHRQ whose mission is to collect and critically review the existing evidence on practices relevant to improving patient safety.
Format: Website
Provider: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Links to medical error and patient safety online journals, documents, conferences, speaches and congressional hearings.
Format: Website
Provider: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
This site provides current statistics on the occurrence of medical errors, their types and cost, where they occur, updates on what's being done via special reports, public fears, and more.
Format: Website
Provider: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Medication Errors
Publication of the American Pharmaceutical Association dealing with the prevention & control of medication errors.
Format: Book
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Provider: American Pharmaceutical Association
The FDA's Medical Products Reporting Program for drugs, biologics, medical & radiation-emitting devices, and special nutrition products (e.g., medical foods, dietary supplements and infant forumlas).The site also offers the databases of three FDA reporting systems: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, Special Nutritional Adverse Event Reporting System, and Manufacturerer and User Facility Device Experience Reporting.
Format: Website
Provider: Food and Drug Administration
Resource link for the National Patient Safety Foundation, an independent organization focused on research and education with a commitment to making patient safety a national priority. The site also features individual state safety resources.
Format: Website
Provider: National Patient Safety Foundation
The mission of the NQF is to improve American healthcare through endorsement of consensus-based national standards for measurement and public reporting of healthcare performance data that provide meaningful information about whether care is safe, timely, beneficial, patient-centered, equitable and efficient.
Format: Website
Provider: National Quality Forum
Clinical alerts are provided to expedite the release of findings from clinical trials funded by the NIH (National Institutes of Health), where such release could significantly affect morbidity and mortality.
Format: Website
Provider: National Library of Medicine
Patient safety tutorials developed by the Department of Community and Family Medicine. The modules define quality improvement, the how's and why's of chart audits, the culture of safety, the evolution of quality and safety in healthcare, the anatomy of an error, and mistake proofing care.
Format: Website
Provider: Duke University Medical Center
The following list of links is provided for use as a reference tool for researchers and other interested parties who wish to locate statistical data on medical errors.
Format: Website
Provider: Institute of Medicine
A set of indicators providing information on potential inhospital complications and adverse events following surgeries, procedures, and childbirth.
Format: Website
Provider: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
This electronic toolbox is intended to provide states with tools they can use or modify as they develop or improve adverse event reporting systems. The toolkit includes information (policies, practices, forms, reports, methods, and contracts) related to states' reporting systems, links to other Web resources, and fast facts and issues related to patient safety.
Format: Website
Provider: National Academy for State Health Policy
Patient Safety: A Guide to JCAHO Compliance and Beyond
Written to provide general advice on placing a hospital within the patient safety movement. Six chapters explain JCAHO patient standards, tasks to get a program up and running, ideas for moving beyond the basics, guidance, tools to improve safety and success stories.
Format: Book
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Provider: Opus Communications Inc.
Puts forward a road map for the development and adoption of key heatlh care data standards to support both information exchange and the reporting and anlaysis of patient safety data.
Format: Website
Provider: National Academies Press
Inappropriate medication use in older adults. Please cite: Fick DM, Cooper JW, Wade WE, Waller JL, Maclean JR, Beers MH. Updating the Beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults: results of a US consensus panel of experts. Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:2716-2724.
Format: Website
Provider: Duke Clinical Research Institute
A toolkit that provides guidance for health care providers, primarily physicians, about clinical diagnosis and treatment during mass casualty radiological/nuclear (rad/nuc) events.
Format: Website
Provider: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Side Effects of Drugs Annual
A yearly worldwide survey of new data and trends in adverse drug reactions and interactions. Complements Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs.
Format: Book
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Provider: Excerpta Medica
Examines the quality of health care in America and how to achieve a threshold of change in quality. Also available in print: WB100 T55
Format: Book
Provider: National Academies Press
An interview with FDA's top drug official.
Format: Website
Provider: Food and Drug Administration
