Workshops

1. Enhancing Patient Safety in and Reducing Errors in Health Care
   This site contains information regarding the conference being held at the Annenberg Center for the Health Sciences that will address issues relating to patient safety and reducing errors in health care.

Safety Related Internet Sites

1. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Medical Errors Research Page
   This site contains information regarding how AHRQ supports research at the health care systems level.
2. American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
   This site contains information regarding how ASHP helps pharmacists and others understand and prevent medication errors and adverse drug events.
3. American Society of Healthcare Risk Management
   This site contains information regarding how ASHRM helps identify, evaluate and control risks that cause patient injuries and financial loss to institutions.
4. Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
   This site contains information regarding investigations that help provide a better understanding of preventable anesthetic injuries.
5. Anonymous Critical Incidents Reporting System
   This site contains information regarding CIRS which is an international forum where information on critical incidents are collected, and how it serves as a teaching instrument.
6. Aviation Safety Reporting System
   This site contains information regarding an anonymous reporting system that effectively reduced error in the aviation industry.
7. Australia Patient Safety Foundation
   This site contains information regarding how the APSF promotes patient safety in Australia and uses the Australian Incident Monitoring System (AIMS) form for reporting incidents or accidents.
8. Flight Safety Foundation
   This site contains information regarding human factor errors within the aviation industry.
9. Food and Drug Administration FDA MedWatch
   MedWatch contains information regarding monitoring and reporting adverse events and problems.
10. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
    This site contains information regarding how the HFES looks at the design of systems and devices and how they interact with the humans that use them.
11. Institute for Healthcare Improvement
    The IHI hosts the Breakthrough Series Collaborative and seminars to help reduce adverse drug events and medical errors.
12. Institute for Safe Medication Practices
    This site contains information on subscribing to the ISMP Medication Safety Alert newsletter and how the ISMP helps to make facilities safe for patients and staff.
13. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
    This site provides information regarding patient safety educational programs, a Sentinel Event Alert newsletter, a glossary, an annotated bibliography, and information on how to perform a root-cause analysis on sentinel events.
14. Latiolais Leadership Program
    This site contains information regarding the Ohio State School of Pharmacy and how it looks at the safety of intravenous drug systems.
15. Maintenance and Ramp Safety Society
    This site provides safety awareness toolkits and posters from the aviation industry.
16. Maryland Hospital Association - Quality Indicator Project
    This site contains information regarding the MHA and how it helps hospitals to oversee patient care quality and identify opportunities for improvement.
17. Medical Device Safety Reports
    The MDSR contains a repository of data relating to medical device incident and hazard information and lessons learned over the past 30 years.
18. National Committee for Quality Assurance
    This site contains information regarding how the NCQA provides quality assurance information to purchasers and consumers of managed health care that allows them to make more informed decisions.
19. National Safety Council
    This site contains information regarding how the NSC supports awareness and effectiveness in all areas of safety.
20. National Transportation Safety Board
    This site contains information regarding how the NTSB examines safety in the transportation environment.
21. Public Entity Risk Institute
    This site contains information regarding how the PERI institute serves the public, private and nonprofit organizations as a resource for the enhancement of risk management.
22. Quality Interagency Coordination (QuIC) Task Force
    The QuIC was established in 1998 in accordance with a Presidential directive.  The purpose of the QuIC is to ensure that all Federal agencies involved in purchasing, providing, studying, or regulating health care services are working in a coordinated manner toward the common goal of improving quality care.
23. "Take Time to Care" Initiative
    This site contains information regarding the FDA Office of Women's Health Program and the tools developed to teach safe medication use.
24. Talk About Prescriptions
    This site contains information regarding the National Council on Patient Information, and educational resources, tips and articles regarding safe use of medications.
25. http://www.ashp.org/US Pharmacopoeia
    This site contains information regarding how the USP establishes standards of quality and authoritative information regarding the use of medicines, and it provides access to the USP Medication Errors Reporting (MEP) program for reporting actual or potential medication errors.

Safety Alerts

1. FDA Safety Alerts