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Patient Safety Resources

• Consult, a risk-management newsletter, helps you reduce your risk to liability lawsuits and promote a healthy physician-patient relationship. Available online or by mail subscription.
• intouch promotes open, honest communications between physicians and patients lead to better outcomes. This newsletter focuses on improving patient-physician interactions. Available online or by mail subscription.
• Studies in Patient Safety is based on actual patient safety events and incidents reported to Pennsylvania’s Patient Safety Authority (PSA). Review the studies and take the CME quizzes online.
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement is a not-for-profit organization driving to improve the quality and value of health care for patients, communities and the health care workforce.
• Institute for Safe Medication Practices is a nonprofit organization that works closely with health care practitioners and institutions, regulatory agencies, professional organizations and the pharmaceutical industry to provide education about adverse drug events and their prevention.
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is the nation's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care.
• National Center for Patient Safety embodies the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) commitment to reducing and preventing adverse medical events through a unified and cohesive patient safety program that applies human factor analysis and safety research targeted at identifying and eliminating system vulnerabilities.
• National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention  is an independent body of leading national health care organizations collaborating to address the interdisciplinary causes of errors and to promote the safe use of medications.
• National Council on Patient Information and Education is a patient safety coalition working to advance the safe, appropriate use of medicines through enhanced communication.
• National Patient Safety Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, is the indispensable resource for individuals and organizations committed to improving the safety of patients.
• National Quality Forum is a private, not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting.
• Patient Safety Authority is charged with taking steps to reduce and eliminate medical errors by identifying problems and recommending solutions that promote patient safety in health care facilities.
• Patient Safety Network is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) comprehensive portal of patient safety resources for health care providers, administrators and consumers.