Table 12. AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative Matrix AHRQ's Patient Safety Initiative: Building Foundations, Reducing Risk Major components>ElementsIdentifying threatsIdentify medical errors and causes of patient injury associated with the delivery of health careIdentifying and evaluating effective practicesIdentify, design, test, and evaluate practices that eliminate medical errors and systems-related risks and hazards which compromise patient safetyEducating, disseminating, and implementing to enhance patient safetyDisseminate, educate, and implement patient safety best practices that reduce or prevent patient injury associated with the delivery of health careMaintaining vigilanceMonitor and evaluate threats to patient safetyCenters of Excellence in Patient Safety Research (3 5-year grants)XXX Developing Centers of Excellence in Patient Safety Research (18 3-year grants)X X Use of Existing Networks IDSRNsHIV Research NetworkCERTsXXXXX XXX Training Grants (6) X AHRQ WebM&MX X International CollaborationXX Patient Safety Improvement Corps X PSTF's Patient Safety Database NetworkX Working Conditions (22 2- to 3-year grants)X X Investigator-initiated ResearchXXX Raising Awareness Patient Safety Research Dissemination and Education Grants (6 3-year grants)Small Conferences and WorkshopsUser Liaison Program XXX Systems-related Best Practices (6 3-year grants) XX Clinical Informatics to Promote Patient Safety (11 5-year grants) XX Identifying Proven Safe Practices Stanford EPCNational Quality Forum XX XX Safe Practices Implementation Challenge GrantsXXX QuIC Error WorkgroupXXX Development of Patient Safety MeasuresX Evaluation of DoD Team Training X Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs)XXXXReporting Demonstration Evaluations (16 3-year grants)XXXXNote: IDSRN=Integrated Delivery System Research Network; CERTs=Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics; EPC=Evidence-based Practice Center; PSIs=Patient Safety Indictors.Return to Document Current as of December 2003 Internet Citation: Table 12. AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative Matrix: AHRQ's Patient Safety Initiative: Building Foundations, Reducing Risk. December 2003. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/pscongrpt/psinitab12.html
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