Patient Safety

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Device that safeguards power supply to vital apparatus at the patient's bedside and prevents accidental disconnection.

Provides consulting services and information resources to help hospitals and health systems improve clinical effectiveness and operational performance.

Prepared by the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC), proposes strong action on Institute of Medicine recommendations to promote safer health care.

Offers a variety of wireless monitoring systems to assist healthcare organizations improve patient safety, prevent falls, and reduce reliance upon restraints; site includes training and education resources .

Conducts research that will transform medical training from the current apprentice model to real-time computer-based medical simulations; objectives include improving medical education and increasing patient safety.

Provides research findings and instructions on effective ways to communicate information about health care quality to consumers and develop health plan report cards.

Promotes improvements in the safety of health care by giving consumers data to make more informed hospital choices.

VIPC&S supports systematic efforts to continuously improve quality of care and patient safety.

Provides information on misdiagnosis of more than 1200 diseases and 300 symptoms; includes data on risk factors and links to additional resources.