Patient Safety
Healthcare acquired
infections are just one of the many events that threaten patient safety
in healthcare facilities. Infection control professionals
are poised to assist staff and patients in reducing the risk of this
complication of health care.
APIC Resources
JCAHO National Patient Safety Goals
The Joint Commission is committed to improving health care safety.
This commitment is inherent in its mission to continuously improve the
safety and quality of care provided to the public through the provision
of health care accreditation and related services that support
performance improvement in health care organizations. Click here for more information.
Patient Safety Organizations
The Patient Safety Organizations section provides a growing
list of organizations in the patient safety arena. If you are aware of a
resource you feel should be added to this list, please contact us at apicinfo@apic.org or by phone at (202)
789-1890.
Patient Safety Resources
Institute of Medicine Reports
Infection Control and Patient Safety
- Burke JP. Infection
control: a problem for patient safety.N Engl J Med 2003;
348(7):651-657. Note: this link is to a page featuring the first pages
of this article. No abstract is available. This article is available to
subscribers of the Journal and for purchase.
- Gerberding JL. Hospital-onset infections: a patient safety
issue.Ann Int Med 2002;137:665-670.
- Monitoring Hospital-Acquired Infections
to Promote Patient Safety -- United States, 1990-1999.MMWR 2002;
49(08):149-153.
- O’Grady NP, Gerberding JL,
Weinstein RA, Masur H. Patient safety and the science of prevention: the
time for implementing the Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular
Catheter-Related Infections is now.Crit Care Med 2003;
31(1):291-292. This article is available for purchase from the
Critical Care Medicine Journal (http://www.ccmjournal.com). No
abstract is available.
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