• Agency for Heathcare Research and Quality
• AHRQ - Medical Errors & Patient Safety
• AHRQ - Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web
• AHRQ - Your Medicine: Play It Safe

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• CDC - Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings
• CDC - National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
• CDC - Preventing Falls Among Older Adults

• Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care
• Canadian Patient Safety Institute
• FDA - Consumer Health Information
• Infection: Don't Pass It On
• National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) - NHS
• National Institute of Health
• Quality Interagency Coordination (QuIC) Task Force

• American Medical Association
• HCPro, The Healthcare Compliance Company
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
• Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
• Joint Commission International Center Patient Safety
• The Leapfrog Group
• National Patient Safety Foundation
• Patient Safety Institute

• Bad Human Factors Designs
• FDA's Human Factors Program
• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
• Human Factors International     Subscribe to UI Design Newsletter
• Human Factors Principles for Medical Device Labeling
• Suggested Readings in Human-Computer Interaction, User Interface Development, & Human Factors

• The Joint Commission
• The Joint Commission's Patient Safety Goals
• The Joint Commission's Accrediting Info
• The Joint Commission's Annotated Resources - Sentinel Events
• The Joint Commission's Sentinel Event Statistics

• ECRI Database of Medical Device Safety Reports
• FDA's Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database - (MAUDE)
• FDA's MedWatch - Medical Products Reporting and Safety Information Program

• Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
• U. S. Pharmacopeia (USP)

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have agreed that NASA will manage an external patient safety reporting system that is:

• voluntary
• confidential
• non-punitive

• PSRS Overview: Who, What, Where, and Why (PDF)
• The PSRS Reporting Process (PDF)
• PSRS Reporting Form (PDF)
• PSRS Feedback - The PSRS Newsletter
• PSRS Product Order Form (PDF)
•    Visit the PSRS Website

• Free Medical Journals
• Diagnostic Code Descriptions (ICD9)
• JAMA
• The New England Journal of Medicine
• Medical Dictionary
• Handbook of Medical Informatics
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• National Library of Medicine Gateway

• Ten Usability Heuristics
• Usability.gov
• Usability Quiz
• Usability Toolkit

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