Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

Patient and family advisors are valuable partners in efforts to reduce medical errors and improve the safety and quality of health care. This handbook will assist you in using patients and family input to improve processes.

An article published by the American Hospital Association shows hospital improvements on key patient safety and quality measures since the COVID-19 pandemic.

A guide organizations can use to review the goal of each domain, specific attestations that are expected to me made for compliance and applicable resources to that can be used to help either determine compliance or develop processes to meet the attestations. The resources provided are both LHATF and national resources. Live links are included to access the resources.

This self-assessment tool is a companion to the Safer Together paper and the Implementation Resource Guide. The tool is separated into four foundational areas and is intended for healthcare delivery organizations to use for learning and to track progress over time.

This National Action Plan was developed from knowledge of the National Steering Council for Patient Safety (NSC) to illuminate collective insights on patient safety improvement. Patient Safety Structural Measure arises from the information in this document.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement convened the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety as a collaboration among 27 national organizations committed to advancing patient safety.

Sample tools that can be used to facilitate compliance with national sepsis clinical practice guidelines. Use these ideas to help customize unique tools for your organization, such as pocket references and posters for staff, standing order sets and performance improvement checklists.

These resources intend to reduce SSI by providing evidence-based interventions and guidance to prevent and control infections. This information shares processes and strategies to improve communication, answer questions and educate staff and patients. The goal is to decrease risks and increase care quality by addressing essential components and primary surgery factors.

Evaluating the current patient safety program is a good way to identify gaps between current practice and best practices. Below are multiple tools that can be used to evaluate the current state of patient safety in your organization against best practices.

Rounding is an effective patient safety and satisfaction tool, but it can be a daunting task to achieve. Provided in this section are tools to help develop rounding processes that provide meaningful information to inform patient care.

Communication breakdowns can be a root cause in many adverse events in healthcare. Therefore, developing processes to improve communication among staff is an important aspect of any patient safety program. Tools are provided in this section to help improve communication at critical transfers of patient care.

This section of the toolkit consists of many tools related to pain management safety covering standards, patient agreement forms, screenings, practices, safety interventions and oversedation risks related to post administration of opioid therapy.