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BMJ Quality and Safety – Patient Safety for Global Health

Patient safety for global health: developing safe, effective and accessible technologies is a free supplement from BMJ Quality and Safety aiming to identify and clarify the role and objectives of technology in improving patient safety across the world, and establish future priorities in research, education, and implementation for patient safety.

BMJ Quality and Safety – Diagnostic Error in Medicine

This free supplement provides insight into the central issues concerning diagnostic error in medicine.

1000 Lives Plus – improving care, delivering quality

1000 Lives Plus is the national improvement programme supporting organizations and individuals to deliver the highest quality and safest healthcare for the people of Wales.

Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine

The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine aims to identify and create interventions to reduce the likelihood of harm related to diagnostic error. It provides a series of resources and related links on the subject.

SAFER Guides

The SAFER Guides consist of nine guides to enable healthcare organizations to address Electronic Health Records (EHR) safety in a variety of areas.

The Health Foundation

The Health Foundation is an independent charity working to improve the quality of healthcare in the UK. It provides many publications in the area of patient safety and quality of care.

RARE Campaign

The Reducing Avoidable Readmissions Effectively (RARE) Campaign provides resources on 5 Key Areas Known to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions after hospitalization.

Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit

The Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit can help hospitals reduce readmission rates by replicating the discharge process that resulted in 30 percent fewer hospital readmissions and emergency room visits. Developed by the Boston University Medical Center and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the newly expanded toolkit helps to ensure a smooth and effective transition from hospital to home.

Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology

Provided by the European Society of Anaesthesiology, Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology provides a series of resources to raise the safety standards across Europe.

SafetyLit

SafetyLit: Injury Research and Prevention Bibliographic Service is a literature review of all papers related to injury occurrence and risk factors, and includes summaries of doctoral theses, "scholarly" reports and journal articles.

CDC Medication Safety

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Medication Safety Program is a collection of campaigns, initiatives and education resources to reduce the risk of harm from medicines.

FDA Initiative to Reduce Radiation Exposure

U.S. Food and Drug Administration White Paper: Initiative to Reduce Unnecessary Radiation Exposure from Medical Imaging.

FDA Drug Safety Communications

This webpage contains the most recent Drug Safety Communications from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

MHRA – Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) comprises information targeted for different healthcare professional specialties to assist them in the safe use and management of medicines and medical devices.

MHRA Drug Safety Updates

Drug Safety Update is the monthly electronic bulletin from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Commission on Human Medicines and brings the latest information and advice to support the safer use of medicines.

Institute for Safe Medication Practices

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is a nonprofit organization devoted to medication error prevention and safe medication use. It provides a series of tools and resources on the topic.

Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare

Healthcare-associated infections are among the most common complications affecting patients in a hospital. As well as causing unnecessary pain and suffering for patients and their families, these adverse events prolong hospital stays and are costly to the health system. This publication addresses the issue and provides recommendations that outline the critical aspects of infection prevention and control in the hospital setting.

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