LibGuides: Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: Patient Safety & QI websites

AHRQ

AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) PSNet highlights the latest patient safety literature, news, and expert commentary, including Weekly Updates, WebM&M, and Perspectives on Safety.

WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety Curriculum Guide

Other Patient Safety & QI Websites

Becker's Hospital Review - 5 Traits of High Reliability Organizations Becker's Healthcare is a leading source of cutting-edge business and legal information for healthcare industry leaders.
Children's Hospital Association | Quality & Performance CHA site - Quality and patient safety issues, initiatives, and resources to improve care, outcomes and hospital performance.
Cincinnati Children's - James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence Methodology on how to become a high reliability organization from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
CMS.gov | Quality Measures - Core Measures CMS tools to help measure or quantify healthcare processes, including outcomes, patient perceptions, and organizational structure.
Johns Hopkins Medicine | Patient Safety & Quality Johns Hopkins Health System website which shares data on patient safety and quality measures.
The Leapfrog Group Website for national nonprofit organization that provides quality and safety health care information. The flagship Leapfrog Hospital survey collects and transparently reports hospital performance and assigns letter grades to hospitals based on their record of patient safety.
National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) NAHQ provides patient safety and quality improvement information for healthcare professionals.

PHF

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) is a private, non-profit, 501(c)3 organization based in Washington, DC, and seeks to improve public health and population health practice to support healthier communities. One of their focus areas is quality improvement. PHF continuously produces QI tools, resources, and services.

PHF QI Quick Guide
With contributions from the National Library of Medicine, PHF has developed a Quality Improvement Quick Guide for public health practitioners. The guide contains a Plan-Do-Check-Act Tutorial, a Quick Quiz, and other resources.

THA

Clinical and Quality Initiatives, a division of the Texas Hospital Association Foundation, works to assist hospitals and systems around the state to advance quality and patient safety. Information regarding initiatives and advocacy efforts can be found on their site.

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THA Patient Safety Organization helps Texas hospitals advance the continued improvement of health care quality and patient safety outcomes.