Patient Safety : Resources for Health Care Professionals

The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Health Care Innovations Exchange is a comprehensive program designed to accelerate the development and adoption of innovations in health care delivery. This program supports the Agency's mission to improve the safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity of care—with a particular emphasis on reducing disparities in health care and health among racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient Safety Act) authorized the creation of Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) to improve the quality and safety of U.S. health care delivery. The Patient Safety Act encourages clinicians and health care organizations to voluntarily report and share quality and patient safety information without fear of legal discovery.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Morbidity & Mortality cases and commentaries.

NCPIE is a coalition of over 125 diverse organizations whose mission is to stimulate and improve communication of information on appropriate medicine use to consumers and healthcare professionals.

Free patient safety journal.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Primers guide you through key concepts in patient safety. Each Primer defines a topic, offers background information on its epidemiology and context, and highlights relevant content from both AHRQ PSNet and AHRQ WebM&M.

An online source for current and past scholarly research about all aspects of injury prevention and safety promotion.

Sorry Works! is now a leading education and training organization in safety and quality.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent not-for-profit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world. Founded in 1991 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, IHI works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action.

In 2005, the World Health Organization designated the Joint Commission and Joint Commission International as the WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety Solutions. Recognized as a leader in patient safety, The Joint Commission promotes and provides for the delivery of safe, high-quality care through its standards, sentinel event database, Sentinel Event Alert, Speak UpTM programs and, most recently, its National Patient Safety Goals. Joint Commission Resources (JCR), or as it is known internationally, Joint Commission International (JCI), promotes health care quality and safety through international accreditation, domestic and international consulting, education and publications. Both the Joint Commission and JCR/JCI are not-for-profit organizations. As the only WHO Collaborating Centre dedicated solely to patient safety, the Joint Commission and JCR/JCI further advance the entire continuum of patient safety including principles related to system design and redesign, product safety, safety of services, and environment of care, as well as offering proactive solutions for patient safety, whether based on empirical evidence, hard research or best practices.

The International Journal for Quality in Health Care makes activities and research related to quality and safety in health care available to a worldwide readership. The Journal publishes papers in all disciplines related to the quality and safety of health care, including health services research, health care evaluation, technology assessment, health economics, utilization review, cost containment and nursing care research, as well as clinical research related to quality of care.

The International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine is concerned with rendering the practice of medicine as safe as it can be; that involves promoting the highest possible quality of care, but also examining how those risks which are inevitable can be contained and managed.

Aims to serve as a forum for providing practical approach to improving quality and safety in health care. Offers case studies and success stories with practical advice and suggestions straight from the practitioners and experts in quality and safety.

The Journal of Patient Safety is dedicated to both rigorous research and field application articles covering to all areas of patient safety and quality health care.

Quality & Safety in Health Care (QSHC) is a leading international peer review journal providing information to improve patient safety and quality of care. It is an essential forum for researchers, clinical professionals and managers as well as experts in organisational development and behaviour. QSHC aims to contribute actively to the debate about the quality and safety of health care by exploring subjects and ideas, from both routine clinical and managerial practice and research, which concern and inform this debate and which focus on real benefits to patients.