Patient Safety Update: New AHRQ Report Encourages Adoption of 22 Patient Safety Strategies

Patient Safety Update: New AHRQ Report Encourages Adoption of 22 Patient Safety Strategies

   March 05, 2013       SNap(R) Group

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Patient Safety Awareness Week

New AHRQ Report Encourages Adoption of 22 Patient Safety Strategies

Making Health Care Safer II, an Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices encourages the adoption of 22 patient safety strategies that are proven to be effective. The new report emphasizes evidence about implementation, adoption and the context in which safety strategies have been used. This helps clinicians understand what works, how to apply it and under what circumstances it works best so it can be adapted to local needs. The report also identifies gaps where more research can propel patient safety efforts even further. To learn more about the online report, visit AHRQ at: www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/makinghcsafer.html

Free continuing medical education credits are available for select articles from the report that have been published in a special supplement to the Annals of Internal Medicine, visit Annals at: http://www.annals.org/issue.aspx?journalid=90&issueid=926462 

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