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ACP Patient Safety - American College of Physicians information and programs on patient safety.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - An agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that provides information regarding medical errors and patient safety from AHRQ.

AHA Quality and Patient Safety - American Hospital Association tools and resources on improving patient safety and quality of care.

Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation - Corporation that promotes safe practices in anesthesia.

APA Info on Medical Errors and Patient Safety - The public policy office of the American Psychological Association

APIC Patient Safety Resources - Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology

ASHP Center on Patient Safety - American Society of Health-System Pharmacists efforts to improve patient safety through advocacy, education, and research.

BCBSM Foundation - The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation partners with Michigan-based researchers and nonprofit community organizations to advance health knowledge and improve practice.

The Bladder Bundle - A VA and UM collaboration that gives health care professionals an array of potential options for reducing CAUTI and indwelling urinary catheter use.

CDC Patient Safety - Information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding patient safety programs, funding, and legislation.

Doing What Counts for Patient Safety; Federal Actions to Reduce Medical Errors and their Impact - Read report online

ECRI Healthcare Technology and Patient Safety - An nonprofit international health services research agency (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute) that provides information and technical assistance to the healthcare community to support safe and cost-effective care.

Hospital Outcomes Program for Excellence (HOPE) - A collaboration between Ann Arbor VA Medical Center and University of Michigan, aiming to create a stellar inpatient service that could eventually become a national and international model for how inpatient care should be provided in an academic setting.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement - A not-for-profit organization that offers resources and services to help health care organizations to make improvements that enhance clinical outcomes and reduce costs.

Institute For Safe Medication Practices - A nonprofit organization that works closely with healthcare practitioners and institutions to provide education about adverse drug events and their prevention.

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations - An independent, not-for-profit organization that strives to improve patient safety and quality of care through standards setting and accreditation of U.S. healthcare organizations.

Leapfrog Group for Patient Safety - A coalition of organizations that provide health care benefits, formed to identify problems related to patient safety and propose solutions that will improve hospital systems.

Making Health Care Safer - An critical analysis of patient safety practices by the UCSF - Stanford University Evidence-based Practice Center for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

MEDERRORS.COM Reducing Medication Errors - A website devoted to providing information on medication errors and adverse drug events in hospitals sponsored by Bridge Medical Inc.

The Medical Arts Project - A University of Michigan program that aims to enhance house officers’ ability to provide high-quality, humanistic clinical care through experiences and analysis of the musical, dramatic, and visual arts, thereby improving clinical care.

Medwatch - U.S. Food and Drug Administration Safety information and adverse event reporting program.

National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention - Independent body of national and international organizations to promote safe use of medications.

National Patient Safety Foundation - An not-for-profit organization whose mission is to improve the safety of patients through the provision of resources and programs aimed at reducing medical error.

National Quality Forum - An nonprofit private organization dedicated to development and implementation of a national strategy for healthcare quality measurement and reporting.

Patient Safety Centers of Inquiry - Dept. of Veteran's Affairs - sponsored center to support clinicians in providing safe patient care by designing and testing clinical innovations, technological solutions, and patient safety movement systems.

Patient Safety Institute - A nonprofit organization that provides real time access to patient information through the National Medical Information Exchange to improve healthcare quality and patient safety.

Premier Safety Institute - Healthcare - related information and tools to enhance patient, worker, and environmental safety.

Quality Interagency Coordination (QuIC) Task Force - Established in 1998 in accordance with a Presidential directive, to ensure that all Federal agencies are coordinated in improving quality care.

Specialist-Hospitalist Allied Research Program (SHARP) - A University of Michigan-based program designed to jumpstart hospital-based clinical and translational research at a major academic medical center by pairing specialists and hospitalists to ask and answer novel research questions.

U.S. Pharmacopeia Patient Safety - Operates programs for health care professionals to report problems encountered during clinical practice.

VA GAPS Center Getting at Patient Safety - A U.S. Dept. of Veteran's Affairs center whose focus is on how gaps in continuity of care are bridged by practitioners and whose goal is to create the components of a safety culture.

VA National Center for Patient Safety - Department of Veteran Affairs program to reduce and prevent adverse medical events while enhancing care.

VIPC&S Resources - A source of links pertaining to patient safety from Virginians Improving Patient Care and Safety. Includes list of state patient safety organizations; current patient safety news, and list of national patient safety conferences and events.