The Patient Safety Movement is a nonprofit dedicated to reducing the number of patient deaths in healthcare settings due to preventable harms. The organization recently held its summit, themed "zero preventable deaths by 2020."
PSM offers downloadable patient safety tools from the conference. The nine tools tackle a wide range of medical issues, including:
1. Failure to rescue: post-operative respiratory depression
2. Medication errors
3. Suboptimal red blood cell transfusion
4. Central line-associated bloodstream infections
5. Suboptimal neonatal oxygen targeting
6. Failure to detect critical congenital heart disease
7. Healthcare-associated infections
8. Handoff communication
9. Culture of safety
Download all of the tools, or visit PSM's website to download individual tools.
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