Links

Australia

Australian patient safety foundation,NGO non-profit, with subsidiaries Patient Safety International (PSI) www.patientsafetyint.com, providing a software incident reporting tool, the Advanced Incident Management System (AIMS®).

www.apsf.net.au

 

Clinical excellence commission (CEC) part of the New South Wales state government Patient Safety and Clinical Quality Program

http://www.cec.health.nsw.gov.au

 

Australian Council on Healthcare Standards

www.achs.org.au

 

Australian Resource Centre for Healthcare Innovations various safety improvement tools

www.archi.net.au

 

Denmark

Danish society for patient safety

www.patientsikkerhed.dk

 

Finland

The Finnish Patient Insurance Centre

www.potilasvakuutuskeskus.fi/www/page/pvk_www_2181

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Norway

The Norwegian System of Compensation to Patients (NPE)

www.npe.no

 

United Kingdom

National patient safety agency

www.npsa.nhs.uk

 

National Patient Safety Foundation (UK voluntary accreditation programme)

www.npsf.org

 

Research programme of the NPSA

www.pcpoh.bham.ac.uk/publichealth/psrp

 

The Health Quality Service (UK voluntary accreditation programme)

www.hqs.org.uk

 

United States of America

Joint Commission Resources

www.jcrinc.com/

 

Institute of Medicine

www.iom.edu/

 

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

www.ahcpr.gov

 

AHRQ reports on experiences implementing safety practices Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation describes what federally funded programs have accomplished in understanding medical errors and implementing programs to improve patient safety over the last 5 years.

www.ahcpr.gov/qual/advances/

 

Institute for Healthcare Improvement 100,000 lives campaign at

www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/Campaign

www.ihi.org/ihi

 

Leapfrog Group

www.leapfroggroup.org

 

Integrated Healthcare Association, Californian group of physician groups, healthcare systems, and academic, consumer, purchaser, and pharmaceutical representatives. IHA's pay-for-performance program rewards physician groups for quality care based on measurements developed by IHA. The six participating health plans are Aetna, Blue Cross of California, Blue Shield of California, CIGNA Healthcare of California, Health Net, and PacifiCare. Each plan will use the common performance measurements while designing its own physician group bonus program.

www.iha.org

 

Veterans Affairs National Centre for Patient Safety with many free resources such as root cause analysis guidelines and training and recent “alerts and advisories”and glossary of terms

www.va.gov/ncps

www.va.gov/ncps/glossary.html