AHRQ tips promote patient safety
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, November 29, 2006
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) published a new list of evidence-based tips to promote hospital safety. The tips cover a wide range of topics from limiting residents' shifts to adopting interventions that can reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia and catheter-related urinary tract infections.
Other topics addressed include the following:
- how to reduce the likelihood of fatigue-related mistakes
- how to ensure safety in intensive care units (ICU)
- advice for eliminating traditional 30+ hour consecutive shifts by interns working in hospital ICUs
- advice for using technology to improve clinical care
AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, presented the ideas in a tipsheet called 10 Patient Safety Tips for Hospitals at the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' annual patient safety conference held in Chicago on November 16.
For a copy of the tipsheet, click here.
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