Frozen-Section Checklist Implementation Improves Quality and Patient Safety

Patient safety checklist: keys to successful implementation.

Implementation of a quality and safety checklist for haemodialysis sessions

BACKGROUND Patient survival and quality of life depend on each haemodialysis session being performed without fault. Monthly assessments of dialysis dose adequacy often fall short of this. This study reports the results of a feasibility study for the achievement of improved safety and quality in a haemodialysis session with the implementation of a 15-point checklist. METHODS Fifteen quality in...

Effective surgical safety checklist implementation.

BACKGROUND Research suggests that surgical safety checklists can reduce mortality and other postoperative complications. The real world impact of surgical safety checklists on patient outcomes, however, depends on the effectiveness of hospitals' implementation processes. STUDY DESIGN We studied implementation processes in 5 Washington State hospitals by conducting semistructured interviews wi...

Section VI: Tools for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Chapter 44. Tools and Strategies for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Medication safety improves after implementation of positive patient identification.

OBJECTIVE To report the incidence and severity of medication safety events before and after initiation of barcode scanning for positive patient identification (PPID) in a large teaching hospital. METHODS Retrospective analysis of data from an existing safety reporting system with anonymous and non-punitive self-reporting. Medication safety events were categorized as "near-miss" (unsafe condit...