Patient Safety Web Sites & Resources
As the premier resource for patient safety activities in Washington, we want to help you access a broad array of useful information.
In this section we provide a range of web sites and links to tools that we find pertinent to those involved with improving safety and reducing error. We invite you to contact us with your comments, suggestions, and corrections. If you are aware of other useful sites and/or tools, please let us know so that we can consider them for inclusion.
General topics and tools
- The National Center for Patient Safety (Veterans Affairs)
- The Joint Commission: National Patient Safety Goals
- Institute of Medicine’s Health Care Quality Initiative
- The Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Hand Hygiene and Infection Control
General
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
- The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology in America
- Infectious Diseases Society of America
MRSA
Laboratory Quality and Safety
Medication Safety
General
Unsafe abbreviations
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices
- The Joint Commission: Do Not Use list
- Food and Drug Administration
Medication Reconciliation
Newsletters/misc tools
- AHRQ’s free monthly Patient Safety electronic newsletter
- AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network: What’s New This Week
Patient/consumer-oriented materials and information:
- Washington State Medical Association
- Food and Drug Administration
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Washington State Department of Health
- SafeMedication.com (ASHP)
- Partnership for Patient Safety
- Washington State Hospital Association
Patient Safety Culture
Patient Safety Curriculum
Organizations
National
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- AHRQ’s innovations exchange
- Food and Drug Administration
- National Patient Safety Foundation
- National Quality Forum
- National Center for Patient Safety
- The Joint Commission
State
- The Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction
- National Academy for State Health Policy
- Chicago Patient Safety Forum
- Colorado Patient Safety Coalition
- Connecticut Center for Patient Safety
- Maryland Patient Safety Center
- Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors
- Michigan Health and Safety Coalition
- Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety
- Ohio Patient Safety Institute
- Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority
- Virginians Improving Patient Care and Safety
