Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

Recommendations on methods to improve patient safety, from the surgical environment through medication.

• March 7, 2012

  AHRQ Toolkit on Medication Reconciliation Available Medication use errors are the largest single source of preventable adverse events. In support of Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 4–10), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ...

• February 15, 2012

  Quality Patient Care in Labor and Delivery: A Call to Action The nation’s leading health care organizations in the area of maternal and infant health, including ACOG, has developed "Quality Patient Care in Labor and Delivery: A Call to Action." The ...

• December 15, 2011

  Health Care Worker Fatigue and Patient Safety The Joint Commission released a Sentinel Event Alert on health care worker fatigue and safety....

• November 1, 2011

  Patient Safety Checklists Available According to various studies, within and outside of the practice of obstetrics and gynecology, standardization of health care processes and reduced variation has been shown to improve outcomes and qu...

• September 13, 2011

  Care About Your Care Initiative Launched On September 1, 2011, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in partnership with various national and local organizations, launched the Care About Your Care initiative to help increase awareness about w...

• May 24, 2010

  FDA and NIH Launch Electronic Safety Reporting Portal The Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health launched a new web site that, when fully developed, will provide a mechanism for the reporting of pre- and post-market safety da...

• May 14, 2010

  Women's Health Safety Certification for Outpatient Practice Excellence Program The office setting creates a unique set of challenges for health care providers, including less legal and regulatory oversight and more fragmented patient care. But it also presents an opportunity fo...

• May 11, 2010

  AHRQ Health Literacy Toolkit Available The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit....

• April 23, 2010

  VRQC Worksheets The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Voluntary Review of Quality of Care (VRQC) Program provides peer review consultations to departments of obstetrics and gynecology, assesses t...