Patient Safety - Web Resources
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IHI Patient Safety CoursesInstitute for Healthcare Improvement.
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Joint Commission - Patient SafetyIncludes best practices documentation as well as other reference materials
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Hospital Safety Grades - Leapfrog GroupLook up patient safety grades for area hospitals
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Patient Safety - OECDA collection of patient safety reports and resources from 'The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development"
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20 Years of Patient Safety - AAMC2019 article with many helpful links on the topic
Patient Safety - Himmelfarb Resources
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Patient Safety Coaching : Transforming Healthcare Culture
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Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9783031687228Publication Date: 2024 -
Health Informatics and Patient Safety in Times of Crisis
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Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781668455005Publication Date: 2022-12-09 -
Making Healthcare Safe
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This unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably the movement's founder, Lucian L. Leape, MD. Covering the growth of the field from the late 1980s to 2015, Dr. Leape details the developments, actors, organizations, research, and policy-making activities that marked the evolution and major advances of patient safety in this time span. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, this book not only comprehensively details how and why human and systems errors too often occur in the process of providing health care, it also promotes an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of patient safety, including how they were influenced by today's modern safety sciences and systems theory and design. Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by not only Dr. Leape but a wide range of other clinicians and health executives from both the private and public sectors, all converged to drive forward the patient safety movement in the US. Making Healthcare Safe is divided into four parts: I. In the Beginning describes the research and theory that defined patient safety and the early initiatives to enhance it. II. Institutional Responses tells the stories of the efforts of the major organizations that began to apply the new concepts and make patient safety a reality. Most of these stories have not been previously told, so this account becomes their histories as well. III. Getting to Work provides in-depth analyses of four key issues that cut across disciplinary lines impacting patient safety which required special attention. IV. Creating a Culture of Safety looks to the future, marshalling the best thinking about what it will take to achieve the safe care we all deserve. Captivatingly written with an "insider's" tone and a major contribution to the clinical literature, this title will be of immense value to health care professionals, to students in a range of academic disciplines, to medical trainees, to health administrators, to policymakers and even to lay readers with an interest in patient safety and in the critical quest to create safe care.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 3030711226Publication Date: 2021-05-29 -
Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management
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Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in the first years of professional practice, in order to have the maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations, and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and technological innovations, and creating effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for residents and young professionals in different clinical specialties.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 3030594025Publication Date: 2020-12-15 -
High Reliability Organizations
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Awarded second place in the 2021 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Professional Issues! Nurses represent the majority of healthcare workers and are on the front lines of delivery and provision of safe and effective care. As a result, nurses are ideally situated to drive the mission to achieve high reliability in healthcare. We expect the primary audience of this text to be frontline nursing staff, nurses in administration, quality and patient safety professionals, advanced practice nurses, and nurse educators. The healthcare professional who purchases this book will do so with the desire to learn more about the application of HRO principles to patient safety and quality problems. This book is unique in that it uses HRO principles as an organizing framework for practical application. The intent of the editors is to provide a quality and patient safety book that is useful to professionals doing the work of healthcare. Healthcare professionals are constantly seeking practical tools and descriptions of practices that will improve and enhance patient safety and quality outcomes. High reliability is a current goal for hospitals, and the principles are sound. However, there is little in the literature that discusses how to apply the principles at the front lines of care to improve outcomes. This text addresses this gap by placing the need for high reliability concepts into our current climate in healthcare through illustrative discussion (theory and research) of each of the five concepts of HRO, along with a description of a current best practice and/or tool that applies to the model. The goal of this book is to stimulate organizations to embrace high reliability concepts while striving to improve the quality and safety of care delivered to patients and families. We all benefit from a safer healthcare environment. The book is divided into eight parts: Part 1: This part provides background for the current safety and quality climate. Parts 2-6: These parts offer HRO concepts as a framework for the new model with examples. The first of these HRO concepts is that HROs have a preoccupation with failure. The second of these HRO concepts is that HROs restrain the impulse to view events through a single lens and are reluctant to simplify. The third HRO concept is that HROs demonstrate sensitivity to operations by making strong responses to weak signs. The fourth HRO concept is that HROs shift decision making away from formal authority and apply deference to expertise. The final HRO concept is that HROs have a commitment to resilience. Part 7: This part puts it all together and provides the reader with examples of how HRO concepts are assimilated into practice across the care continuum.Part 8: This part provides the reader with real-world examples of HRO principles employed in a variety of patient care areas. Comprehensive Instructor's Guide and Student Workbook are available for this book.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 1948057778Publication Date: 2020-12-01
Patient Safety - Journal Articles
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Howell M. D. (2024). Generative artificial intelligence, patient safety and healthcare quality: a review. BMJ quality & safety, 33(11), 748–754. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2023-016690
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Vikan, M., Haugen, A. S., Bjørnnes, A. K., Valeberg, B. T., Deilkås, E. C. T., & Danielsen, S. O. (2023). The association between patient safety culture and adverse events - a scoping review. BMC health services research, 23(1), 300. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09332-8
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Deimazar, G., & Sheikhtaheri, A. (2023). Machine learning models to detect and predict patient safety events using electronic health records: A systematic review. International journal of medical informatics, 180, 105246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2023.105246
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Mahmoud, H. A., Thavorn, K., Mulpuru, S., McIsaac, D., Abdelrazek, M. A., Mahmoud, A. A., & Forster, A. J. (2023). Barriers and facilitators to improving patient safety learning systems: a systematic review of qualitative studies and meta-synthesis. BMJ open quality, 12(2), e002134. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002134
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Mossburg, S. E., & Dennison Himmelfarb, C. (2021). The Association Between Professional Burnout and Engagement With Patient Safety Culture and Outcomes: A Systematic Review. Journal of patient safety, 17(8), e1307–e1319. https://doi.org/10.1097/PTS.0000000000000519
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O'connor, P., O'malley, R., Oglesby, A. M., Lambe, K., & Lydon, S. (2021). Measurement and monitoring patient safety in prehospital care: a systematic review. International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care, 33(1), mzab013. https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzab013
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Park, M., & Giap, T. T. (2020). Patient and family engagement as a potential approach for improving patient safety: A systematic review. Journal of advanced nursing, 76(1), 62–80. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14227
Quality Improvement - Web Resources
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CMS.gov Hospital Quality InitiativeCenter for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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AHRQ: Quality ImprovementAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Johns Hopkins University: Quality ImprovementJHU Center for Nursing Inquiry
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AAFP: Basics of Quality ImprovementAmerican Academy of Family Physicians
Quality Improvement - Himmelfarb Resources
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Reshaping Health Systems
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Call Number: Book Stacks ; RA395.A3 J67 2024ISBN: 9781975221232Publication Date: 2024-11-02 -
Improving Quality in Healthcare
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Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781529733051Publication Date: 2024-04-09 -
The Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools, Fifth Edition
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Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781640553576Publication Date: 2022-11-24 -
The Health Care Data Guide
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Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781119690139Publication Date: 2022-06-15 -
Applying Quality Management in Healthcare: a Systems Approach, Fifth Edition
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Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781640552777Publication Date: 2021-08-01
Quality Improvement - Journal Articles
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Allgood, A., Wiltrakis, S., White, M. L., Hayes, L. W., Buchalter, S., Hall, A. G., & Brown, M. R. (2025). The Integration of Quality Improvement and Health Care Simulation: A Scoping Review. Quality management in health care, 34(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1097/QMH.000000000000046
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Gallifant, J., Griffin, M., Pierce, R. L., & Celi, L. A. (2023). From quality improvement to equality improvement projects: A scoping review and framework. iScience, 26(10), 107924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107924
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Loper, A. C., Jensen, T. M., Farley, A. B., Morgan, J. D., & Metz, A. J. (2022). A Systematic Review of Approaches for Continuous Quality Improvement Capacity-Building. Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP, 28(2), E354–E361. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000001412
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Hempel, S., Bolshakova, M., Turner, B. J., Dinalo, J., Rose, D., Motala, A., Fu, N., Clemesha, C. G., Rubenstein, L., & Stockdale, S. (2022). Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: a Scoping Review of the Literature. Journal of general internal medicine, 37(16), 4257–4267. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-07602-5
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Khurshid, Z., De Brún, A., Martin, J., & McAuliffe, E. (2021). A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis: Determinants of the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Measurement-Focused Quality Improvement Trainings. The Journal of continuing education in the health professions, 41(3), 210–220. https://doi.org/10.1097/CEH.0000000000000331
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Pallari, E., Khadjesari, Z., Aceituno, D., Odhiambo, C. A., Warner, R., Bastianpillai, C., Green, J. S. A., & Sevdalis, N. (2021). Implementation and Evaluation of Quality Improvement Training in Surgery: A Systematic Review. Annals of surgery, 274(6), e489–e506. https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000004751
