Patient Safety Tools: Improving Safety at the Point of Care

Toolkit by Setting & User

Hospital—General – These toolkits contain evidence-based resources to help inpatient facilities improve performance around some of the most common and most serious patient safety problems faced by hospitals today.

• The Emergency Department (ED) Pharmacist as a Safety Measure
• Improving Hospital Discharge Through Medication Reconciliation and Education
• Improving Medication Adherence
• Interactive Venous Thromboembolism Safety Toolkit for Providers and Patients
• Multidisciplinary Training for Medication Reconciliation
• Overcoming Barriers to Error Reporting in Small, Rural Hospitals
• Preventing Venous Thromboembolisms in the Hospital
• Reducing Central Line Bloodstream Infections and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
• Reducing Discrepancies in Medication Orders and Histories at Handoffs
• Testing the Re-engineered Hospital Discharge
• Using Military Simulation to Improve Rural Obstetric Safety

Emergency Departments – These toolkits contain resources to help hospitals apply evidence-based safe practices in the Emergency Department (ED) to improve patient flow, implement a multidisciplinary simulation-based safety curriculum, and improve medication safety by implementing a formal ED pharmacist program.

• The ED Pharmacist as a Safety Measure
• Improving Patient Flow in the ED
• A Simulation-Based Safety Curriculum in a Children's Hospital ED

Hospital Care Units – These toolkits contain resources to help hospitals apply evidence-based safe practices.

• Implementing Reduced Work Hours to Improve Patient Safety
• Improving Patient Safety Through Enhanced Provider Communication
• Reducing Central Line Bloodstream Infections and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

Outpatient Settings – These toolkits contain resources to help facilities address outpatient medication safety by applying evidence-based safe practices.

• Improving Hospital Discharge Through Medication Reconciliation and Education
• Improving Medication Safety in Clinics for Patients 55 and Older
• Improving Warfarin Management
• Multidisciplinary Training for Medication Reconciliation
• Testing the Re-engineered Hospital Discharge

Consumer/Patient Care – These toolkits contain resources to help facilities educate consumers in medication safety and post-hospital care.

• Improving Hospital Discharge Through Medication Reconciliation and Education
• Improving Medication Adherence
• Improving Medication Safety in Clinics for Patients 55 and Older
• Improving Warfarin Management
• Testing the Re-engineered Hospital Discharge
• Using Military Simulation to Improve Rural Obstetric Safety