Patient Safety Medical

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement - Agency for …

https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/index.html

AHRQ has developed a wealth of materials focused on a wide range of patient safety risks in specific healthcare settings: acute, long-term, ambulatory, and more. Quality improvement measurement tools and information, including AHRQ Quality Indicators Hospital Toolkit, …

Patient Safety | The Joint Commission

https://www.jointcommission.org/resources/patient-safety/

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming and frequently cited statistics from the Institute of Medicine: medical errors …

Patient Safety - World Health Organization

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/patient-safety

Patient Safety is a health care discipline that emerged with the evolving complexity in health care systems and the resulting rise of patient harm in health care …

The Safety of Inpatient Health Care | NEJM

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2206117

Abstract Background Adverse events during hospitalization are a major cause of patient harm, as documented in the 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study. Patient safety has …

Patient Safety in Medical, Nursing, and Other Clinical …

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/patient-safety-medical-nursing-and-other-clinical-education

Patient Safety 101 | PSNet

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/patient-safety-101

The History of the Patient Safety Movement The concept that patients could be harmed while receiving medical care has been known for thousands of years, since …

Defining Patient Safety and Quality Care - NCBI Bookshelf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2681/

Patient safety is the cornerstone of high-quality health care. Much of the work defining patient safety and practices that prevent harm have focused on negative outcomes of …

Why medical residents play key role in …

https://www.ama-assn.org/education/improve-gme/why-medical-residents-play-key-role-improving-patient-safety

The “Patient Safety” module helps residents better understand ways to evaluate and improve safety processes around them by helping them: Identify the core …

Medical Device Safety | FDA

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/medical-device-safety

Medical Device Safety. The FDA monitors reports of adverse events and other problems with medical devices and alerts health professionals and the public when …

Advances in Patient Safety and Medical Liability

https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/liability/index.html

This publication, Advances in Patient Safety and Medical Liability, presents contributions and findings from the AHRQ-funded projects. In addition to a prologue, the volume …