Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

Section VI: Tools for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Chapter 44. Tools and Strategies for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Quality improvement and patient safety organizations in anesthesiology.

Quality Improvement in Anesthesiology Anesthesiology is the medical specialty that provides anesthesia during surgery and other invasive procedures, in critical care, and in management of acute and chronic pain. Through its core expertise of keeping patients safe and comfortable during invasive or painful procedures, anesthesiology enables the activities of every surgical discipline and an incr...

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005.

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 establishes a network of federally certified Patient Safety Organizations (PSO). PSOs will establish voluntary, confidential data systems and forums for providers to learn and improve patient safety. The Act provides protections, not available in Missouri, from discovery of data reported to a PSO. Providers should begin assessing patient sa...

Piloting a patient safety and quality improvement co-curriculum

Background: Despite the push for resident and faculty involvement in patient safety (PS) and quality improvement (QI), there is limited literature describing programs that train them to conduct PS/QI projects. Objective: To determine the effectiveness of a co-learning PS/QI curriculum. Method: The authors implemented a co-learning (residents and faculty together) PS/QI curriculum within our gen...

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005.

OBJECTIVE To review Public Law (PL) 109-41-the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA)-and summarize key medication error research that contributed to congressional recognition of the need for this legislation. DATA SOURCES Relevant publications related to medication error research, patient safety programs, and the legislative history of and commentary on PL 109-41, publish...