JEFFSelects: Patient Safety

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Key Journals

• AHRQ Web M & M: Morbidity & Mortality Rounds on the Web
  Free to all users from 2003 to present. Choose the “case archives” or “perspectives on safety.”
• Drug Safety (Campus Key required for off-campus access)
• Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (Campus Key required for off-campus access)
• Journal of Patient Safety (Campus Key required for off-campus access)
• Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority
• Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare (Campus Key required for off-campus access)
• PSRS FEEDBACK
  This Patient Safety Reporting System (PSRS) newsletter was initiated by the VA and modeled after NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS). The newsletter and reporting system is now continued by NASA.
• Quality & Safety in Health Care  (Campus Key required for off-campus access)
• Topics in Patient Safety (TIPS)
  From the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Patient Safety

Recommended Books and Multimedia @ Scott Memorial Library

Available online:

• Meeting the Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals /Joint Commission Resources (Campus Key required for off-campus access)
• The essential guide for patient safety officers / Joint Commission Resources and Institute for Healthcare Improvement (Campus Key required for off-campus access)
• Infection prevention & control issues in the environment of care / Joint Commission Resources (Campus Key required for off-campus access)
• Environment of care: essentials for health care / Joint Commission Resources (Campus Key required for off-campus access)
• Toolkit for preventing health care-associated infections (Campus Key required for off-campus access)
• Medication reconciliation handbook / Joint Commission Resources (Campus Key required for off-campus access)
• Credentialing & privileging your hospital medical staff: examples for improving compliance / Joint Commission Resources (Campus Key required for off-campus access)

In print:

• To do no harm : ensuring patient safety in health care organizations / Julianne M. Morath, Joanne E. Turnbull ; foreword by Lucian L. Leape.
  Circulating Books, 4th floor: WX 185 M831t 2005
• Total health and safety for health care facilities : catalyzing improvements in employee safety, patient care and the bottom line / Linda F. Chaff.
  Circulating Books, 4th Floor: WX 185 C433t 2006