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Campaign "How-To Guides"-- There are four hospitals in Colorado
that are participating in this campaign as of May 2005: Montrose Memorial
Hospital, Community Hospital in Grand Junction, Memorial Hospital in Colorado
Springs, and Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree. The guides include:
Rapid Response Teams, ADE Prevention, AMI Care, Surgical Site Infections,
Central Line Infections, Ventilator Associated Pneumonia.
Defining Reportable
Adverse Events-- A guide for states tracking medical errors.
Doctor's Office Quality
Information Technology (DOQ-IT) --A CMS program, administered in Colorado by
the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care. DOQ-IT
promotes the adoption of clinical information systems in physician practices
with a vision of enhancing access to patient information, decision support, and
reference data, as well as improving patient-clinician communication.
Falls Toolkit-- In an
effort to help facilities prevent the number and severity of falls that occur
the National Center for Patient Safety has created this toolkit.
FDA
Patient Safety News-- A video news show for health
professionals sponsored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Professionals
who subscribe to this monthly broadcast receive an email at the beginning of the
month with a list of the new programs headlines and links to the stories.
Guidelines for Verbal
and Telephone Orders--Guidelines developed to help ensure that verbal and
telephone orders are issued, received, and processed in a manner designed to
reduce the risk of error and enhance patient safety. The Colorado Health
and Hospital Association developed these guidelines.
Healthcare Failure Mode Effect
Analysis-- A proactive approach to identifying and preventing problems
Improving Patient
Safety in Hospitals: Turning Ideas Into Action-- This patient safety toolkit
comes from the University of Michigan Health System
"National
Voluntary Consensus Standards for Hospital Care: An Initial Performance
Measure Set," National Quality Forum, 2003.
This report details 39 voluntary consensus standards for hospital care
quality endorsed by NQF. It represents the first-ever set of nationally
standardized performance measures to assess the quality of care provided
by the more than 6,000 acute care hospitals in the United States.
The Physician Practice Patient Safety
Assessment--A new tool developed by
the MGMA Center for Research, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices,
and the Hospital Research and Educational Trust. The instrument is now being
tested through self-assessments by several hundred randomly selected
physician practices. For more information,
click here.
Prevent
Antimicrobial Resistance in Healthcare Settings--This
campaign sponsored by the CDC includes tools for clinicians with the intention
of preventing antimicrobial resistance in healthcare setting, such as hospitals
and long-term care facilities.
"Safe Practices
for Better Healthcare," National Quality Forum, 2003.
This report details 30
healthcare safe practices that should be universally utilized in applicable
clinical care settings to reduce the risk of harm to patients.
Although this set of safe practices is
not intended to capture all activities that might reduce adverse healthcare
events, it has been carefully reviewed and endorsed by a diverse group of
stakeholders.
Safety Attitude Questionnaire and Safety Climate Survey-- A collection of
surveys to assess attitudes and climate concerning patient safety issues in a
number of clinical settings developed at the University of Texas Center of
Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice
Speak Up Initiatives-- The aim of this campaign is to encourage patients to
become informed and active members of the health care team.
Guidelines for Verification of
Patient/Procedure and Site of Procedure/Surgery-- Provided by the Colorado
Hospital Association
Patient Safety Checklists--
Pre and Post-Surgery Checklists provided by the American Academy of Orthopaedic
Surgeons.
Sign Your Site-- A slideshow
from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons regarding Wrong Site Surgery
Prevention.
Universal Protocol for
Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong Person Surgery
and
Guidelines for Implementing the Universal
Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong Person
Surgery--
This protocol was
approved by the Joint Commission Board of Commissioners and became effective
July 1, 2004 for all accredited hospitals, ambulatory care and office based
surgery facilities.
Maximizing Patient Safety in the Medication Use Process-- Practice
guidelines and best demonstrated practices provided by the Wisconsin Patient
Safety Institute, Inc.
Medication Safety Videos--
The FDA and Institute for Safe Medication Practices compiles recent patient
safety events and solutions pertaining to medication use via video or text
Model High-Alert Medications Policy and Procedures--This document includes a
list of high alert medications provided by the Wisconsin Patient Safety
Institute, Inc.
Partnering with Patients
and Families in the Medication Reconciliation Process
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