Center for Patient Safety

Full list of Center for Patient Safety results

• The 5 characteristics of high reliability organizations

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  Quality improvement and the STAR method of decision making

• Learning with simulation: 3 scenarios

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  Reduce human errors, train rising leaders and trial new equipment with simulation training

• Implementing a peer-review process

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  How to develop and systematically use a quality review process to improve patient safety

• Closing the gap between EMS and inherent safety

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  A framework to quality improvement initiatives to solve your safety challenges

• Taking your safety temperature

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  Learn how to put structure to your patient safety program while changing the culture and measuring progress

• Emotionally challenging calls – A case to formalize peer support

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  Webinar: Understanding the second victim phenomenon; tips for developing a successful peer support program

• Human factors: How to use them to improve clinical outcomes

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  Identify the human factors – fatigue, stress, distraction – that can cause medical errors and change your organization’s culture

• Reporting, investigating and just culture

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  Just culture moves an EMS agency to a better understanding of its current practices and the essential steps for improvement

• Why patient hand-offs are important to successful care

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  Standardizing the transition of care helps improve patient safety and ensure the patient's care is smooth and no information is lost

• Planning for patient safety: Strategic planning, goals and measurement

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  Outlining defined goals and metrics through strategic planning prevents medical errors from reaching patients in the prehospital environment

• Prevent EMS medication errors with checklists and job aids

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  Most EMS providers have witnessed or been involved with a medication error attributable to poor system design and lack of safety behaviors

• An EMS leader’s duty to patient safety

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  The Center for Patient Safety launches a webinar series, “The Road to High Reliability,” allowing industry experts to share strategies to reduce clinical errors by cultivating a robust safety culture

• Why every EMS agency needs a stronger safety culture

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  A strong patient safety culture has the greatest impact on reducing adverse incidents and harm to patients

• Standardized reporting process improves transition of patient care

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  Patient hand-offs are an intersection between healthcare providers where critical information is shared regarding the mutual patient

• Fatigue reporting processes reduce ambulance crash risk

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  Great strides have been made in ambulance safety, design and operation, but significant risk still exists

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