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Longwoods eLetter October 19, 2005 | Special Issue
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following information is made available by educational support provided by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Ontario Hospital Association.
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The Patient Safety Papers | a special issue of Healthcare Quarterly.
Editor: Dr. Ross Baker | Available online here:
(or use the linked table of contents below)
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The Table of Contents
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Editorial: Lessons learned and
challenges ahead: Canadian experiences in improving patient safety
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Perspective
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World View
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Nurturing a
Patient Safety Culture
Patient Safety Culture Measurement
and Improvement: A "How To" Guide
Changing a Culture with Patient
Safety Walkarounds
How Quality Improvement Projects
Influence Organizational Culture
Patient Safety - Worker Safety:
Building a Culture of Safety to Improve Healthcare Worker and Patient
Well-Being
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Identifying
and Reducing Risk
Preventing and Managing Conflict:
Vital Pieces in the Patient Safety Puzzle
Implementing a Policy for
Practitioners Infected with Blood-Borne Pathogens
Enhancing Patient Safety Through a
Standardized Model of Physiologic Monitoring
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Medication
Safety
An Effective Tool to Enhance a
Culture of Patient Safety and Assess the Risks of Medication Use Systems
Approaches to Improving the Safety
of the Medication Use System
Drug-Therapy Problems,
Inconsistencies and Omissions Identified During a Medication Reconciliation and
Seamless Care Service
Using Healthcare Failure Mode and
Effect Analysis Tool to Review the Process of Ordering and Administrating
Potassium Chloride and Potassium Phosphate
Inappropriate Prescribing Practices:
The Challenge and Opportunity for Patient Safety
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Developing
Information for Improving Safety
Safer Care - Measuring to Manage and
Improve
The Development of the Canadian
Paediatric Trigger Tool for Identifying Potential Adverse Events
The Human Factor: Unexpected
Benefits of a CPOE and Electronic Medication Management Implementation at the
University Health Network
Identifying and Preventing
Technology-Induced Error Using Simulations: Application of Usability
Engineering Techniques
Reports of Preventable Medical
Errors from the Alberta Patient Safety Survey 2004
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Designing an
Agenda for Change
From Inquest to Insight
Patient Safety: Le Groupe Vigilance
pour la Sécurité des Soins: A Québec Perspective
Developing a Comprehensive Patient
Safety Strategy for an Integrated Canadian Healthcare Region
Quality, Patient Safety and the
Implementation of Best Evidence: Provinces in the Country of Knowledge
Translation
Building from the Blueprint for
Patient Safety at the Hospital for Sick Children
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Disclosure
and Accountability
Legal Issues in Patient Safety: The
Example of Nosocomial Infection
Striking A Balance: Who Is
Accountable for Patient Safety?
Trillium Health Centre's Journey to
Disclosure
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Canadian Patient Safety Week 2005 is the first of what will become an annual event to
keep the issue of patient safety foremost in Canada. In this, its inaugural
year, we're hoping that we will be able to use the week to highlight Canadian
efforts to build a safer health system. We want this week to grow and welcome
your organization's feedback and involvement in making Canadian Patient Safety
Week something that gets better every year. | Read and share the letter to healthcare organizations from Phil Hassen,
CEO, Canadian Patient
Safety Institute.
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New from the Ontario Hospital Association’s Patient Safety Support
Service: the “Your Health Care: Be Involved” campaign to provide patients with
tips to engage and encourage them to be more involved in their health care. Go
to: Your Health Care: Be Involved.
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The Health Quality Council (HQC) invites you aboard for the Saskatchewan
broadcast of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) 17th Annual
Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare, December 13 & 14, 2005.
This premier conference attracts more than 4,000 health care leaders in-person
and an additional 6,000 by satellite world-wide.
The Longwoods eLetter and Health Clips (sign
up here) will let you know when broadcast information and the registration
forms are available. In the meantime, visit the IHI web site for descriptions
of the broadcast sessions: http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/ConferencesAndTraining/Satellite_Broadcast_17thNationalForum.htm?TabId=3
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This eLetter invites you to share this list of RELIEF agencies with every
principal and teacher you know. One dollar per child can make a
difference. If you are planning your year-end gift list give someone you love a
care package, a real wishing well or maybe a goat.
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