Studer Group Toolkit: Patient Safety

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Description

This toolkit provides health care leaders and frontline staff specific tactics they can immediately put into action to improve patient safety outcomes. By routinizing specific behaviors, organizations can improve patient safety without purchasing new equipment, adding staff, or spending additional time to put them into practice. The actions are divided into the following eight sections, each of which has been identified as a priority area for health care organizations to address as they seek to provide safer care:

Section 1 - Hardwire a culture of safety
Section 2 - Improve the accuracy of patient identification
Section 3 - Implement a standardized approach to “hand off” communications, including an opportunity to ask and respond to questions
Section 4 - Comply with current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hand hygiene guidelines and reduce MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infection
Section 5 - Reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls
Section 6 - Encourage patients’ active involvement in their own care as a patient safety strategy
Section 7 - Prevent health care-associated pressure ulcers
Section 8 - Reduce readmission and adverse events post-discharge

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This tool is available at: http://www.studergroup.com/content/store/files/Patient_Toolkit.pdf (If you don't have the software to open this PDF, download free Adobe Acrobat Reader® software External Web Site Policy

Developer

Studer Group

Funding Sources

Studer Group

QualityTool Topic

Patient/Medication safety

History

Release Date: 05/2007
Original Summary: 06/2009

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QualityTool Classification

Disease/Clinical Category:

Decubitus ulcer

Fall

Hand hygiene

Patient Care Process:

Coordination of care

Fall prevention

Hand-off and end-of-shift reports

Infection control

Patient safety

Primary prevention