Indiana Patient Safety Center

Links and Resources

Links to Organizations in Indiana
Indiana Association for Healthcare Quality
Indianapolis Coalition for Patient Safety
Indiana State Department of Health
Health Care Excel
Indiana Hospital Association
Indiana Rural Health Association
Indiana State Medical Association
Indiana University School of Medicine Regenstrief Institute
Purdue University Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering

Just Culture
Patient Safety and the "Just Culture": A Primer for Healthcare Executives

Hand Hygene Resources
Joint Commission Hand Hygiene tool kit – available for a fee. To order, please call our Customer Service Center at 877.223.6866, or click on the following links:

Hand Hygiene Toolkit

Hand Hygiene Buttons

CDC hand hygiene program
The CDC provides an interactive training course on hand hygiene and other standard precautions to prevent healthcare associated infections. The course reviews key concepts of both hand hygiene and standard precautions.

Links to Medication Safety Summit Materials, May 8

Links to Other Patient Safety Web Sites
AHRQ Innovations Exchange
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority
AHA Quality Center
Joint Commission
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
Leapfrog Group
National Patient Safety Foundation
National Quality Forum

Online Toolkit for Building a High-Quality Language Services Program
Language barriers in health care are a daily reality.Patients who speak or understand limited English risk receiving poorer quality of care—and have worse outcomes—as a result of not being able to communicate with caregivers.

Medically Induced Trauma Support Services (MITSS)
The MITSS mission is to support healing and restore hope to patients, families, and clinicians who have been affected by an adverse medical event.

High Alert Medications

Reducing Adverse Drug Events & Potential Adverse Drug Events with Unfractionated Heparin, Low Molecular Weight Heparins and Warfarin

Developed by Purdue University PharmaTAP in collaboration with the Indiana Patient Safety Center (IPSC), Indiana Hospital Association (IHA) and VHA Central

Anticoagulant toolkit PDF

Assessment Tool: Reducing Adverse Drug Events With Anticoagulants

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

Plexus Institute Newsletter - Emerging: The MRSA Issue

Assessment Tool: Multidrug-Resistant Organisms

Centers for Disease Control web site regarding Community Acquired MRSA

Other State or Regional Patient Safety Organizations
Georgia Partnership for Health & Accountability
Maryland Patient Safety Center
Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors
Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety
North Carolina Center for Hospital Quality & Patient Safety
Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority
Pittsburgh Regional Patient Safety Initiative
VA National Patient Safety Center

More Resources and Links
IHI Campaign to Protect 5 Million Lives from Harm
IHI Leadership Guide to Patient Safety
IHI Seven Leadership Leverage Points
IHI A Framework for Leadership Improvement
IHI Getting the Board on Board – IHI How-to Guide
IHI Improving the Reliability of Healthcare
IHI Move Your Dot: Measuring, Evaluating, and Reducing Hospital Mortality Rates (Part 1)
Just Culture
Disclosure and Apology
American Nurses Association Patient Safety Initiatives
Institute for Safe Medication Practices: Guidelines for Automatic Dispensing Cabinets

Public Reporting Links and Resources
Background on Serious Adverse Event Reporting in Indiana
This IHA document provides a simple explanation of serious adverse event reporting in Indiana.
Minnesota Department of Health
Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority
Preliminary 2006 Report of the Indiana Medical Error Reporting System