 | AHRQ Consumer Pages (The
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
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| Consumers Advancing
Patient Safety
 | The CAPS mission is: To be a champion for
patient safety in a new healthcare; To be a voice for individuals,
families and healers who wish to prevent harm in healthcare
encounters through partnership and collaboration; To teach the
healthcare community what consumers and providers need to know
whenever they interact within healthcare systems |
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| CMS Quality
Initiatives
(The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
| Department
of Defense Patient Safety Program
| The Department of Defense Patient Safety
Program is a comprehensive program with the goal of establishing
a culture of patient safety and quality within Military Health
System (MHS). The program encourages a systems approach to
create safer patient environment; engages MHS leadership;
promotes collaboration across all three Services; and fosters
trust, transparency, teamwork, and communication. |
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| ECRI
| ECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research
Institute) is a nonprofit health services research agency and a
Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization (WHO). It
is designated as an Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) by the
U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. ECRI's mission
is to improve the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of
healthcare. It is widely recognized as one of the world's
leading independent organizations committed to advancing the
quality of healthcare. |
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| Hospital Compare
| An initiative from the US Department of
Health and Human Services. As they describe themselves:
This tool provides you with information on how well the
hospitals in your area care for all their adult patients with
certain medical conditions. This information will help you
compare the quality of care hospitals provide. Hospital Compare
was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) and organizations that represent
hospitals, doctors, employers, accrediting organizations, other
Federal agencies and the public. |
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| Institute for
Safe Medication Practices
| A nonprofit healthcare agency comprised of
pharmacists, nurses, and physicians, dedicated to learning about
medication errors, understanding their system-based causes, and
disseminating practical recommendations that can help healthcare
providers, consumers, and the pharmaceutical industry prevent
errors. |
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| IHI - The Institute for
Healthcare Improvement
| IHI
is a reliable source of energy, knowledge, and support for a
never-ending campaign to improve health care worldwide. The
Institute helps accelerate change in health care by cultivating
promising concepts for improving patient care and turning those
ideas into action. |
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| Joint
Commission Patient Safety References
| The Joint Commission is committed to
improving health care safety. This commitment is inherent in its
mission to continuously improve the safety and quality of care
provided to the public through the provision of health care
accreditation and related services that support performance
improvement in health care organizations. At its heart,
accreditation is a risk-reduction activity; compliance with
standards is intended to reduce the risk of adverse outcomes. |
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| Joint Commission
International Center for Patient Safety
| The International Center for Patient Safety
focuses on the identification, gathering, analysis, and
dissemination of patient safety solutions, both in this country and
abroad, and upon the creation of organization cultures of safety
which embrace continuous attention to safety-focused, systems
improvement efforts. |
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| Leap Frog Group
| An effort by companies and organizations that
purchase healthcare, to examine systems changes to bring about
better health care |
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| Minnesota Alliance for
Patient Safety
| The Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety (MAPS)
is a partnership among the Minnesota Hospital Association, Minnesota
Medical Association, Minnesota Department of Health and more than 50
other public-private health care organizations working together to
improve patient safety |
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Minnesota Department of Health Patient Safety Page |
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National Patient Safety Foundation
| An AMA Foundation dedicated to improving safety
in health care. |
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| National Quality Forum
| A private organization dedicated to improving
health care quality. |
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| National Committee for Quality
Assurance
| An organization dedicated to improving the
quality of health insurance providers |
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| The Network for Improvement of
Addiction Treatment
| The Network for the Improvement of Addiction
Treatment (NIATx) is a partnership between The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation’s Paths to Recovery program, the Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment’s Strengthening Treatment Access and
Retention (STAR) program, and a number of independent addiction
treatment organizations. NIATx is working with addiction
treatment providers to make more efficient use of their
capacity, and shares strategies and tools for improving access
and retention with the addiction treatment field. |
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| The Center for the Health
Professions
| A center at UCSF designed to help policy makers
respond to the changing environment to provide quality health care. |
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| Quality
Check
| Quality Check is one source of accreditation and
comparison information that a person can use to determine whether a
health care organization will meet his or her needs. |
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