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The University of Michigan Health System recognizes the importance
of promoting best practices that exemplify safe and high quality patient
care. In an effort to achieve this objective, "Improving Patient
Safety in Hospitals: Turning Ideas into Action" was developed as
a resource for clinicians and administrative leaders responsible for
strategic initiatives aimed at creating and sustaining quality of care
and patient safety in hospitals. This toolkit addresses issues considered
to be critical to this mission and is intended to present ways of turning
patient safety ideals into practical and achievable strategies.
The tookit is divided into the following chapters
The UMHS Patient Safety Toolkit is part of a larger project to disseminate 'best
practices' in patient safety undertaken by the University
of Michigan
Health System, and supported by an educational grant from the Blue
Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation. Other parts of this project
include:
a conference titled "Improving Patient Safety in Hospitals: Turning
Ideas into Action" held November 22, 2002 at the UM Towsley Center,
and webcast to
sites around the state; a program of customized, "hands-on" workshops
for clinician-leader teams at selected hospitals around the state;
and
an Internet
Self-Study CME Program based on the November 2002 conference.
For any questions concerning the Patient Safety Toolkit, including
reprint permission issues, please contact Maria Pernal-Wallag at (734)
615-5374 or via e-mail at mariasw@umich.edu. |
