This resource guide provides tools to assist health care facilities in implementing a patient safety program.

This toolkit includes the following program tools, all of which may be customized as needed:

• Generic safety plan: template
• Comprehensive medical safety program
• Quality and safety officer job description: template
• Organized assignments for accompanying patient safety plan or program
• American Society for Healthcare Risk Management: Perspective on disclosure of unanticipated outcome information
• Checklist for patient safety and Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations standards