Publications, Videos, Content
Since its inception, NPSF has taken great strides to provide information and education opportunities to healthcare leaders, patients and families. Through multi-media resources, important information is widely disseminated and made available through our website and partnerships.
Some of the resources below are available through the NPSF Patient Safety Store.
VIDEOS
Patient Safety: A Critical Issue!
A new 20 minute patient safety video program for staff education focusing on system errors within the hospital and providing suggestions to recognize and reduce potential medical errors. Produced in partnership with Envision Inc. and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC).
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To order, call toll free 866-321-5066 or visit Envision
Patient Safety: Your Role in Making Healthcare Safer
Help your patients take an active role in their safety with this 10-minute video and full-color brochure. Your patients will learn practical ways to help ensure their safety in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
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Let's Talk: Disclosure After an Adverse Medical Event
This 30 minute NPSF video program explains the issues surrounding disclosure, offers guidance from renowned leaders in patient safety, and illustrates solutions with actual case studies.
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Lessons in Patient Safety
This publication offers easy access to information about patient safety, including the study and experience of those in health care and other industries who help provide a road map for those who want to change systems and make them safer.
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Spotlight on Solutions: Compendium of Successful Practices Volume 1
A compilation of Solutions from the NPSF Solutions 2000 Conference held in Chicago, Illinois.
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Current Research on Patient Safety in the United States
Designed to provide information on currently funded research and to define the current landscape of patient safety and medical error research in the United States, this catalogue identifies a sample of key organizations that support patient safety-related research projects, explores the current and future directions and barriers to conducting this type of research, and presents a searchable database of active research projects identified by the surveyed organizations.
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Let's Talk: Communicating Risk and Safety in Health Care
Conference Tapes and Syllabus from the May 2001 national conference
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Enhancing Patient Safety and Reducing Errors in Health Care Conference Proceedings November 8-10, 1998
Proceedings of the 1998 multidisciplinary meeting held in Rancho Mirage, California, also known as Annenberg II. Historical reflections, culture of safety, Denver nurse's trial, reporting systems and methodologies, and human factors are covered.
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A Tale of Two Stories: Contrasting Views of Patient Safety Report from a Workshop on Assembling the Scientific Basis for Progress on Patient Safety
The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) at the AMA, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) are committed to learning about, using, and adding to the established research base on safety. As a first step towards realizing that goal, the NPSF, with critical financial support from the VA and AHCPR, convened the workshop "Assembling the Scientific Basis for Progress on Patient Safety" in Chicago in December of 1997. This report from the workshop provides a much-needed grounding in the technical knowledge relevant to patient safety the "state of the art" of the multidisciplinary approaches that have proven productive in other domains and have only begun to be applied to research in health care. The report gives insight into what kinds of research are likely to yield interesting and productive results. Like the workshop itself, the report draws together a collection of threads to make a fabric upon which to pattern future work.
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NPSF Fact Sheets
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The fact sheets below contain helpful patient safety tips and information for patients and families. These fact sheets can be printed and distributed freely at information tables, fairs, or in reception areas. Information from these fact sheets is excerpted from our Patient Safety Brochures which are for sale in the NPSF Patient Safety Store.
- What You Can Do To Make Health Care Safer
- Pharmacy Safety and Service - What You Should Expect
- Preventing Infections in the Hospital What You as a Patient Can Do
- Role of the Patient Advocate
- Safety as You Go from Hospital to Home
These are available as brochures in packages of 100 or more from the NPSF Patient Safety Store
From NPSF and the Partnership for Safe Medication Use
ABCs of Patient Safety
NPSF Statement of Principle: Talking to patients about health care injury: a statement of principle for health care professionals and institutions NPSF Statement of Principle: Impact of Staffing Shortages on Patient Safety
National Agenda for Action: Patients and Families in Patient Safety: Nothing about Me, Without Me
Call to action for healthcare organizations at all levels to involve patients and families in systems and patients safety problems. Four areas of involvement include: education and raising awareness, building the culture, suggested areas of research and developing support services to mitigate the effects of a harmful error.
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Educational Needs Assessment for Improving Patient Safety: Results of a National Study of Physicians and Nurses
This report summarizes the needs assessment conducted by NPSF as part of its "Improving patient safety through web-based education" project. The two-phased needs assessment sought to explore physicians' and nurses' experiences with error in medicine, to understand their attitudes and knowledge with regards to patient safety, and to identify key informational needs.
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Pride, Prejudice, and Pediatric Sedation: A Multispecialty Evaluation of the State of the Art
This publication is based on the Dartmouth Summit on Pediatric Sedation held at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center on September 9th, 2000. This summit was organized to help convene leaders in pediatric sedation research and policy development to facilitate a high level discussion of the challenges that face practitioners of pediatric sedation.
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Accountability in Clinical Research: Balancing Risk & Benefit - Forum Report
A summary of the meeting on Accountability in Clinical Research: Balancing Risk & Benefit held in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 24-26, 2002.
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Collaborative Leadership for ESRD Patient Safety: Phase 1: Report of the National Patient Safety Consensus for the Community of Stakeholders in End Stage Renal Disease
Forty-two stakeholder representatives and nine observers from 34 organizations involved in the care of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) described fifty-nine challenges to ESRD patient safety and proposed more than forty actions for addressing these challenges.
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Safe Use of Pharmaceuticals As a National Health Priority: Developing a Leadership Agenda
Summary from the workshop in July of 1999.
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Reporting as a Means To Improve Patient Safety: Roundtable Discussion
Report from the roundtable discussion March 16-17, 2000
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Agenda For Research and Development in Patient Safety
Setting forth the strategy and tactics for research and development and constituting an "agenda" for research and development in patient safety.
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Public Opinion of Patient Safety Issues: Research Findings
The NPSF commissioned this 1997 survey to gain insight into the experiences and opinions of American adults on patient safety issues in the US health care environment. It found that 100 million Americans see medical mistakes as directly touching themselves. An Executive Summary of the survey is also available online.
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