Patient Safety Tools: Improving Safety at the Point of Care
Toolkit by Setting & User
Hospital—General – These toolkits contain evidence-based resources to help inpatient facilities improve performance around some of the most common and most serious patient safety problems faced by hospitals today.
Emergency Departments – These toolkits contain resources to help hospitals apply evidence-based safe practices in the Emergency Department (ED) to improve patient flow, implement a multidisciplinary simulation-based safety curriculum, and improve medication safety by implementing a formal ED pharmacist program.
Hospital Care Units – These toolkits contain resources to help hospitals apply evidence-based safe practices.
Outpatient Settings – These toolkits contain resources to help facilities address outpatient medication safety by applying evidence-based safe practices.
Consumer/Patient Care – These toolkits contain resources to help facilities educate consumers in medication safety and post-hospital care.