| 1. | Patient Safety Institute | | | Provides real-time, secure, patient-centric clinical information in five areas critical for delivering quality care: diagnoses, laboratory results, medications, allergies and immunizations.
www.ptsafety.org |
| 3. | Australian Patient Safety Foundation | | | 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 comparative research.
www.apsf.net.au |
| 4. | Patient Safety Center of Inquiry | | | 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.
www.patientsafetycenter.com |
| 5. | p4ps-Partnership for Patient Safety | | | A patient-centered intitiative to advance the reliability of healthcare systems worldwide. Includes videos, audio cassettes, and CD-ROM training tools.
www.p4ps.org |
| 6. | VA National Center for Patient Safety | | | 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
www.patientsafety.gov |
| 7. | National Patient Safety Foundation | | | 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.
www.npsf.org |
| 8. | The Leapfrog Group | | | 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.
www.leapfroggroup.org |
| 9. | Maryland Patient Safety | | | Supports regional patient safety initiatives by encouraging collaborative efforts, disseminating current knowledge relating to patient safety, and developing a formal structure for activities.
www.marylandpatientsafety.org |
| 10. | Patient Safety Reporting System | | | A voluntary, confidential, non-punitive program available to all VA employees for the reporting of events and concerns related to patient safety.
psrs.arc.nasa.gov |
| 11. | JCAHO Facts About Patient Safety | | | Improves safety and quality of care for patients and residents in health care organizations through accreditation and performance improvement.
www.jcaho.org |
| 12. | Quality Interagency Coordination (QuIC) Task Force | | | 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.
www.quic.gov |
| 13. | Making Health Care Safer | | | 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.
www.ahcpr.gov |
| 14. | Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety | | | 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.
www.mnpatientsafety.org |
| 15. | National Quality Forum | | | Promotes change through development and implementation of a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting.
www.qualityforum.org |
| 16. | Institute For Safe Medication Practices | | | 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 electronic discussion forum, and links to related sites.
www.ismp.org |
| 17. | Patient Safety Data Standards | | | 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.
www.iom.edu |
| 18. | QuIC Report on Patient Safety | | | Prepared by the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC), proposes strong action on Institute of Medicine recommendations to promote safer health care.
www.quic.gov |
| 19. | Colorado Patient Safety Coalition | | | Home page for coalition of healthcare professionals and organizations formed to promote patient safety in Colorado.
www.coloradopatientsafety.org |
| 20. | Patient Safety: Let's Get Practical | | | 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 corporations.
www.mederrors.org |
| 21. | SAFER California Healthcare | | | 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 agencies, and organizational partnerships.
www.safer.healthcare.ucla.edu |
| 22. | IPRO Quality Improvement Organization | | | 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 review.
www.ipro.org |
| 23. | Patient Updates | | | Provides a free, convenient and reliable way to keep friends and family updated on the condition of a hospitalized loved one.
www.patientupdates.org |
| 26. | Global Med-ID System | | | Provides a medical information system with immediate worldwide compatibility. System utilizes existing Internet/Intranet technology and unique controls providing the foremost level of security.
www.globalmed-id.com |
| 27. | TalkingQuality.gov | | | Provides research findings and instructions on effective ways to communicate information about health care quality to consumers and develop health plan report cards.
www.talkingquality.gov |
| 28. | HospitalWeb - USA | | | Lists web site addresses of U.S. hospitals; updated regularly.
adams.mgh.harvard.edu |
| 30. | Premier Inc. | | | Provides consulting services and information resources to help hospitals and health sytems improve clinical effectiveness and operational performance.
www.premierinc.com |
| 31. | Partnership for Human Research Protection | | | 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.
www.phrp.org |
| 32. | M | | | Web-based patient safety resource and journal that showcases patient safety lessons drwan from actual cases of medical errors; site includes cases of medical errors, expert commentaries, and a users' forum.
www.webmm.ahrq.gov |
| 34. | QSHC Online | | | A monthly journal presenting peer-reviewed ideas, solutions and practices in the field of patient safety and quality improvement.
qhc.bmjjournals.com |
| 35. | Institute for Self-Directed Care | | | Promotes clinical research, consumer education and advocacy for self-directed, patient-centered health care; site includes consulting services and links to relevant resources.
www.selfdirectedcare.org |
| 36. | Voice4Patients.Com | | | Provides information to educate patients and consumers on the health care process, including links to research and support resources.
www.voice4patients.com |
| 37. | Medicharms | | | Offers alternative medical identification items; products include a variety of character, sports-related and other pendants with the medical information on the back.
www.medicharms.com |
| 38. | HCA Patient Safety | | | Describes this US hospital chain's medication and patient safety practices, and provides general information about the subject.
www.HCAPatientSafety.org |
| 39. | RN+ Systems | | | 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.
www.rnplus.com |
| 40. | Lifetag - Medical Identification Jewelry | | | Offers alternatives to traditional medical ID tags; provides a highly-visible medical emblem which can attach to jewelry, keys, cell phones, insulin pumps and drivers licenses.
www.susaneisen.com |
| 41. | American Iatrogenic Association | | | Focuses on the study and reporting of medical errors that lead to disease and death; includes links to related sites and resources.
www.iatrogenic.org |
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