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Patient Safety Links
Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits nearly 17,000
health care organizations and programs in the United States.
An independent, not-for-profit organization, JCAHO is the
nation's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body
in health care. Since 1951, JCAHO has developed state-of-the-art,
professionally based standards and evaluated the compliance
of health care organizations against these benchmarks.
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Leapfrog
Group
Composed of more than 135 public and private organizations
that provide health care benefits, The Leapfrog Group works
with medical experts throughout the U.S. to identify problems
and propose solutions that it believes will improve hospital
systems that could break down and harm patients. Representing
approximately 33 million health care consumers in all 50 states,
Leapfrog provides important information and solutions for
consumers and health care providers.
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The
Institute For
Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is a nonprofit
organization that works closely with healthcare practitioners
and institutions, regulatory agencies, professional organizations
and the pharmaceutical industry to provide education about
adverse drug events and their prevention.
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National
Patient Safety Foundation
The mission of the National Patient Safety Foundation is to
measurably improve patient safety in the delivery
of health care.
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National
Quality Forum
The National
Quality Forum is a not-for-profit membership organization
created to develop and implement a national strategy for healthcare
quality measurement and reporting.
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"To
Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System", a report
by the Institute of Medicine
The IOM Quality of Health Care in America Committee was formed
in June 1998 to develop a strategy that will result in a threshold
improvement in quality over the next ten years. This report
addresses issues related to patient safety, a subset of overall
quality-related concerns, and lays out a national agenda for
reducing errors in health care and improving patient safety.
Although it is a national agenda, many activities are aimed
at prompting responses at the state and local levels and within
health care organizations and professional groups.
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