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Clinical Resource Tools

Leadership:

• Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare - currently offering free subscriptions to this periodical
• Research Study on Executive Walkarounds
• News Release: National Quality Forum - 26 Practices to Reduce Adverse Events
• Strategies for Leadership: Hospital Executives and Their Role in Patient Safety
• Strategies for Leadership: An Organizational Approach to Patient Safety
• Senior Executive Medical Safety Walkaround

Clinical Informatics:

• Role of Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems in Facilitating Medication Errors (COR Healthcare Resources, Healthcare Leadership Review, May 2005)
• Clinical Informatics: Computerized Physician Order Entry: Eight Steps to Optimize Physician Workflow (HIMSS)

Bar Coding:

• iHealth Beat (California Healthcare Association's news)
• FDA Issues Proposed Rules on Bar-Coding, Safety Reporting for Drugs
• Assessing Bedside Bar-Coding Readiness (ISMP)
• Bar Coding for Patient Safety (HIMSS Advocacy White Paper)

PDA: 

• Technology Can Cause Medication Errors, Study Finds (American Medical News, March 28, 2005)
• PDAs: Making Rounds with Handheld Technology (COR Healthcare Resources, April 2004)
• Handheld Healthcare (HIMSS)

Medication Safety: 

• Hospitals and Primary Care Docs Need to Talk (Health A to Z, 2/27)
• Study Finds Patients Have Broader Definition of Medical Errors Than Clinicians (AHA News Now, 12/18/06)
• IOM Recommends Medication-Safety Strategies (AHANews, 7/24/06)
• IHA Patient Safety Collaborative Medication Reconciliation
• Leading a Strategic Planning Effort 
• Looking Collectively at Risk 
• Guidelines for Preventing Medication Errors in Pediatrics 
• Addressing Medication Errors in Hospitals: A Practical Tool Kit: Resources provided by California Healthcare Foundation & Protocare Sciences. 
• MedWatch: The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program 
• Center for Drug Evaluation and Research: Medication Errors

Safety Reporting/Quality Collaboratives:

• Infections: CDC's National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System 
• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System 
• The Healthcare Management Council  

Simulation:

• HealthPartners Simulation Center for Patient Safety 

Surgical Safety: 

• Tips for Safer Surgery (Courtesy of the Surgical Care Improvement Project Partnership)
• AHRQ Study Finds Wrong-Site Surgery Rare and Preventable (AHA News Now, 4/17/06)  

Infection Control: 

• Recommended Guidelines for Infection Control and Respiratory Hygiene/Cough Etiquette Strategy for Health Care Facilities and Accompanying Posters
• IHA's Response to Chicago Tribune Series on Hospital-acquired Infections: 
  - Facts About Infection Control in Illinois Hospitals 
  - Patient Brochure: Preventing Infections in the Hospital - What You as a Patient Can Do
• CDC: 12 Steps to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance Among Hospitalized Patients 

Pediatric Safety:

• Patients, Families Take Up the Cause of Hospital Safety (Wall Street Journal, 5/30/07)
• Patient Safety in Pediatric Emergency Care Educational Module 
• Jose King Pediatric Safety Program
• Josie King video information

Patient/Family Disclosure: 

• Perspective on Disclosure of Unanticipated Outcome Information - developed by ASHRM