Patient Safety Resources 

• AHRQ REPORT: MAKING HEALTH CARE SAFER: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PATIENT SAFETY PRACTICES August 29, 2001
  The report reviewed 79 patient safety practices of which 73 are considered likely to improve patient safety, including 11 that are considered by researchers to be proven effective but not performed routinely in the nation's hospitals and nursing homes. The report is available by calling AHRQ's Publications Clearinghouse at 1-800-358-9295 or online
   
• To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (2000) -- From the Institute of Medicine
  
• Doing What Counts for Patient Safety: Federal Actions to Reduce Medical Errors and Their Impact -- Report of the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC) to the President, February 2000
  
• Center on Patient Safety -- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
  
• Discussion Paper on Adverse Event and Error Reporting in Healthcare -- from Institute for Safe Medication Practices January 24, 2000
  
• List of INTERNATIONAL MEDICATION ERROR REPORTING PROGRAMS
  
• MedErrors.com -- a web site devoted to providing information on medication errors and adverse drug events in hospitals
  
• National Patient Safety Foundation -- The mission is to improve measurably patient safety in the delivery of health care
  
• Medical Errors & Patient Safety -- From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  
• Anonymous Critical Incidents Reporting System (CIRS©) -- an international forum on critical incidents in anesthesiology.
  
• MedWatch -- The U.S.A.'s Food and Drug Administration Medical Products Reporting Program
  
• Patient Safety feature of the Virtual Learning Center -- Department of Veterans Affaires
  
• MedMARx -- The United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc.

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