Design & Safety
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Patient Safety

59 chapter report on patient safety strategies for the medical environment

Advice on how to use abbreviations appropriately

Use the MedWatch program for reporting significant adverse events with medical products

Blood transfusion errors can be made at many points in the process

Common medication errors due to abbreviations

Sentinel event data reveal that such serious problems can occur in any hospital unit, not just ER

News and reference materials related to drug and medical device safety

Health care professionals often report confusion between similar brand and generic names

Some of the reports and risk analyses from ECRI

Additional safety measures should be considered for patients identified as high risk for entrapment

Full text of 7 EOC plans for a university medical center

Interventions that may be used to prevent patients from escaping and eloping

Family physicians can take several steps to help reduce medical errors and improve patient safety

Databases regarding medical safety alerts for drugs, biologics, devices, dietary supplements

FDA Adverse Event Reporting Program

Series of statistical reports related to claims and reported injuries from medical mistakes, etc.

Full text of a hazardous drug handling policy in use by a major university's medical center

Steps that may be used to in conducting a proactive risk assessment in the health care setting

Risk Assessment for Hospital Bed Entrapment and more

Clinical Guidance for the Assessment and Implementation of Bed Rails in Hospitals, Long Term Care Facilities and Home Ca

FDA recommendations for manufacturers of new hospital beds and for facilities with existing beds

FAQ on entrapment issues

A critical analysis of patient safety practices in incident reporting

Provides education & alerts about adverse drug events and their prevention

Reference materials related to medical and medication errors

The Joint Commission

Amendment to the 2003 NFPA Life Safety Code permits the use of alcohol-based handrub solutions in patient rooms (pdf)

Articles provide advice on reducing medical errors and promoting patient safety

Patients who are involved with their care can help prevent medical errors

The USP Medication Errors Reporting Program has implemented this index for use in the USP database

To use when considering how best to proceed in choosing and applying a variety of technological solutions

Consumer information on the proper use of nonprescription & prescription medicines

AHSP Center on Patient Safety

Systematic assessment of a patient's fall risk factors

Form for patients to complete prior to obtaining an MRI

Root cause analysis, Healthcare Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, etc. used by VA hospitals

Provides recommendations to reduce medication errors

A series of articles on the topic

Interventions to prevent patients from escaping and eloping from medical buildings and grounds

The following are processes involved in assessing patients for fall risk

Determine if there are existing intrinsic factors that may affect the patient's fall risk.

A form used to score a patient's risk for falling

Reduce the number of falls as well as the severity of the falls that do occur

29 page handbook for preventing medical errors and promoting patient safety

Medication error summary reports, etc

Information related to perioperative patient safety

Lead your team to root causes for each patient safety incident event

Online resources for improving patient safety

Utilizing Moderate Sedation/Analgesia, Deep Sedation/Analgesia, or General Anesthesia

Materials to facilitate patient safety and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations

Reference documents and tools to help health care providers with patient safety

Text of a patient care safety plan for a psychiatric center

Guidance on efforts to develop a culture of safety

Errors regarding the use of a refrigerator to store medications

Complaint information is used to strengthen the oversight activities of the JCAHO

Suggested strategies for reducing risk

Forms to document and collect restraint data on patients

Alternatives to the use of restraints with elderly patients

A sample plan outline - no details

To help reduce medical errors in health care

Statistics identifying causes, trends, settings and outcomes of patient safety events

National Patient Safety Foundation statement of principle

Full text of the IOM report on patient safety and medical errors

Guidance for implementing the Universal Protocol

Patient safety tools related to medication errors

Medication error alert advice from the USP

FDA program for vaccine safety

Issues of interest such as side effects, additives, etc