Conference home page for the patient safety / errors in health care conference series presented by the National Patient Safety Foundation, Annenberg Center for Health Sciences, and other medical and health care organizations, government agencies, and corporations.
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Provides a free, convenient and reliable way to keep friends and family updated on the condition of a hospitalized loved one.
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Provides consulting services and information resources to help hospitals and health sytems improve clinical effectiveness and operational performance.
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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.
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Promotes improvements in the safety of health care by giving consumers data to make more informed hospital choices. Includes hospital survey results, patient safety research, and links to related sites.
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Patient Safety: medical error, medication error, medical equipment failure, root cause analysis, human factors, usability, physician error, pharmacy error, nursing error, iatrogenesis, failure mode analysis
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VIPC&S supports systematic efforts to continuously improve quality of care and patient safety.
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Provides information to educate patients and consumers on the health care process, including links to research and support resources.
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Provides information on misdiagnosis of more than 1200 diseases and 300 symptoms; includes data on risk factors and links to additional resources.
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