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Organizations Assisting PREP |
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The Citizen Advocacy Center |
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HRSA - the Health Resources nad Services
Administration, home of the NPDB and funders for the PREP program. |
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Administrators in Medicine - The
Organization for State Medical and Osteopathic Board Executives. |
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NCSBN - The National Council of State Boards of
Nursing, the association of nurse licensing boards nationwide. |
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Governmental Information on Patient
Safety |
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IOM - the Institute of Medicine, Authors of the
seminal patient safety report, "To Err is Human", and Subsequent Research and
Reports. |
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AHRQ - the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, Patient Safety Section |
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The Quality Interagency Task Force -
the Federal group, made up of Federal Agencies such as HHS, the Department of
Defense, VA, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and a wide range of other agencies who
provide or review health care issues as a part of their service to the public,
charged with responding to the IOM's report by President Clinton. |
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National Guideline Clearinghouse
- an ARHQ-sponsored database of evidence-based practice guidelines
online. |
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Private Patient Safety Sites |
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National Patient
Safety Foundation, a part of the
American Medical
Association, has a great bibliography of (almost) all patient safety
literature, links to many patient safety resources, and a free
patient
safety e-mail newsletter. |
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JCAHO Patient Safety
Standards - The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations certifies hospitals and has recently added Patient Safety
Standards to its accreditation criteria. JCAHO also requires "sentinel event"
reporting by hospitals, and has an on-line "annotated
sentinel event" bibliography. |
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Institute for Healthcare
Improvement - the IHI reviews errors and accidents and develops strategies
to reduce error rates. |
