Patient Safety Resources

Your librarian just started her second week of  five-week patient course titled "The Science of Safety in Healthcare" by Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb, Peter J. Pronovost.

Here are a few recommended resources from the course:

The Joint Commission 2013 National Patient Safety Goals

Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century  (free PDF book)

The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
The Armstrong Institute’s goal is to eliminate preventable harm to patients and to achieve the best patient outcomes at the lowest cost possible, and then to share knowledge of how to achieve this goal with the world. Created with a $10 million gift from C. Michael Armstrong, former chairman of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Board of Trustees, the institute also provides an infrastructure that, for the first time, oversees, coordinates and supports patient safety and quality efforts across Johns Hopkins’ integrated health care system.

 Ask Me 3    
Ask Me 3 is a patient education program designed to improve communication between patients and health care providers, encourage patients to become active members of their health care team, and promote improved health outcomes.

TeamSTEPPS 
 TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based teamwork system designed for health care professionals. TeamSTEPPS is presented in a multimedia format, with tools to help the health care organization plan, conduct, and evaluate its own team training program. All materials are available online and in printed copies at AHRQ Clearinghouse.

World Health Organization: Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide
Patient safety is not specific to one health profession; all health professional learning should include patient safety competencies. The 2011 WHO Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide was developed to satisfy this demand for a single coordinated approach, pulling individual strands of work from health-care professionals into a systems-based, team-dependent approach, to ensure patient safety learning is delivered in an integrated way.

For more information, please e-mail dthimons@jamesonhealth.org or call extension 4050.