Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Medical Errors Research Page - AHRQ
The contributions of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly AHCPR) have resulted in a broader understanding of what the patient safety problems are and where they occur in the delivery of health care. AHRQ-supported research is leading to re-thinking of what does and does not work at the health care system level.
www.ahcpr.gov/qual/errorsix.htm
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
ASHP and its Research and Education Foundation have been helping pharmacists and others understand and prevent medication errors and adverse drug events for decades. his page includes a helpful section on "Medical Misadventures."
www.ashp.org
American Society of Healthcare Risk Management - ASHRM
The American Society for Healthcare Risk Management is a professional membership organization devoted to identification, evaluation, and control of risks that could cause injury to the patient and financial loss to the institutions they represent.
www.hospitalconnect.com
Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation - APSF
The mission of the APSF is to ensure that no patient shall be harmed by anesthesia. The purposes of the foundation are: to foster investigations that will provide a better understanding of preventable anesthetic injuries, encourage programs that will reduce the number of anesthetic injuries, and promote national and international communication of information and ideas about the causes and prevention of anesthetic injuries.
www.gasnet.org/societies/apsf
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ECRI
ECRI is a non-profit health services research agency. Its mission is to improve the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of healthcare. It is widely recognized as one of the world's leading independent organizations committed to advancing the quality of healthcare.
www.ecri.org
Food and Drug Administration
FDA MedWatch
MedWatch is an initiative designed to educate all health professionals about the critical importance of being aware of, monitoring for, and reporting adverse events and problems, and to facilitate reporting to the Agency.
www.fda.gov/medwatch/
Institute for Healthcare Improvement - IHI
An organization hosting both seminars and a collaborative approach to reducing errors in health care. One noted category is their Breakthrough Series Collaborative on reducing adverse drug events and medical errors.
www.ihi.org
U.S. Food and Drug Administration — Center for Devices and Radiological Health Evaluation and Research
FDA provides educational programs and opportunities for information exchange to meet its regulatory and scientific needs using a variety of techniques. A cost-effective way of interacting with a large audience is through the use of live satellite teleconferences. A satellite teleconference is a live program, broadcast to a satellite, that anyone interested can "down-link" and watch.
www.fda.gov/cdrh/useerror/Index.html
US Pharmacopoeia - USP
USP promotes public health by establishing and disseminating officially recognized standards of quality and authoritative information for the use of medicines and other health care technologies by health professionals, patients, and consumers. The page provides access to the USP Medication Errors Reporting (MEP) program, which facilitates the reporting of actual or potential medication errors.
www.usp.org
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