Patient Safety

While most health practitioners know that patient safety is paramount, there is room for improvement, says Robin Diamond, MSN, JD, RN.

Diamond, who is senior vice president for the Department of Patient Safety at the Doctors Co., Napa, Calif., identifies safety and risk management loopholes in “Practice managers play key role in patient safety,” an online exclusive article in the March issue of MGMA Connexion magazine. In the article, she discusses a recent study by the Doctors Co. that identified medical record documentation, lab tests and referrals, patient scheduling and follow-up as areas where medical practices and hospitals can improve patient safety.

Improving Performance on the AHRQ Quality Indicators

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This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators (QIs) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and support your use of them to successfully improve quality and patient safety in your hospital. The toolkit is a general guide to using improvement methods, with a particular focus on the QIs. It focuses on the 17 Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) and the 28 Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs).
 

Safe care . . . accepting no less.

Frontline healthcare providers and healthcare organizations around the world are looking for and developing solutions to patient safety incidents and challenges.

Global Patient Safety Alerts is an innovative information-sharing resource to help you prevent and mitigate patient safety incidents in your organization and help others succeed.

Here you’ll find more than 800 patient safety incident advisories, alerts, and recommendations. Learn what works and share your own insights and solutions with healthcare providers, healthcare organizations, patients, and the public.

You’ll also find customizable, evidence-based tools you can start using immediately to help you achieve your goals.

While there is increasing evidence on patient safety in acute care settings, less is known about the safety of healthcare services in the community, particularly within primary care.

In 2009, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) partnered with the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council (BCPSQC) to commission a research report on the current state of knowledge of patient safety in primary care with the goal of identifying the key issues, priorities, opportunities and strategies for advancing patient safety in primary care in Canada. Through a competitive process, a research team from the Institute of Health Economics was commissioned to develop the report, "Patient Safety in Primary Care" (pdf-2,984Kb)