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Patient Safety Information for Health Care Professionals

Patient Safety and You


Public Education Resources for Healthcare Providers
- All AGS Foundation for Health in Aging public education resources are available in ready-to-print format. Health care providers are encouraged to print and share these with their patients.


Family Activated Rapid Response Teams or "Condition H" - The "Condition H" model was created to address the needs of the patient and family in case of an emergency or when the patient is unable to get the attention of a healthcare provider in an emergency situation. When "Condition H" is called, a rapid response team arrives to the patient's bedside within minutes.

An Ounce of Prevention Poster (PDF)

An Ounce of Prevention Poster Brochure (PDF) - An Ounce of Prevention Brochure - Follow these easy and low-cost steps to stop many infectious diseases. Information provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
ElecMedRec
Electronic Medical Records

 

American Health Information Community - The American Health Information Community (AHIC) is a federal advisory body, chartered in 2005 to make recommendations to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on how to accelerate the development and adoption of health information technology. AHIC was formed by the Secretary to help advance efforts to achieve President Bush's goal for most Americans to have access to secure electronic health records by 2014.


Patient Safety Institute - "Real Time" Health Care Information
PSI was formed to provide the healthcare industry with a commonly owned, inclusive network utility to support communities (Regional Health Information Organizations, RHIOs) in delivering real-time healthcare information to achieve high quality care through more complete clinical information at the point of treatment or decision; safer care by reducing errors caused by incomplete clinical information; lower costs through reduction in duplicate diagnostic tests and unnecessary admissions.

Implementing Electronic Medical Records at your Organization - Information from the Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety
MedErrors
Reporting Errors

Nevada Sentinel Events Registry - Assembly Bill 1 (AB1) was passed during the 2002 18th Special Legislative Session, and mandatory reporting of sentinel events was incorporated into Nevada Revised Statute (NRS) 439.800-890 and Nevada Administrative Code (NAC) 439.900-920. Assembly Bill 59 (AB59) was passed during the 2005 73rd Session of the Nevada Legislature, and codified "facility acquired infection" as a reportable sentinel event. Twenty-two other states in the U.S. have also implemented, or are in the process of implementing, a similar reporting system under their own state’s legislative directive.

Sentinel Events - Forms and tools, policies and procedures and reporting alternatives, published by the Joint Commission.
 
 

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