Ohio Health Quality Improvement Institute

Improving Patient Safety and Reducing Errors

Summary:      

Health-associated infections, prescription and medication errors, wrong-site surgeries, and other medical errors cause thousands of deaths annually in Ohio. Reducing these infections and errors can not only save lives, but also substantially reduce health costs.  Discussion in this focus area should identify strategies and tactics that would substantially reduce health-associated infections, medication errors, or other medical errors throughout Ohio’s health system.

Patient Safety Focus Group Strategy Recommendations

 UPDATED - Patient Safety Chart.pdf

Please use the following criteria to evaluate the potential strategies Criteria for Strategies.pdf

Pre-reading

 IOM Rx factsheet.pdf

 The GAAP.pdf

 PreventingPressureUlcers.pdf

 PATIENT SAFETY Pre-Read- Medication_Errors.pdf

 NQF HAI Issue Brief 4 08.pdf 

Cross-Cutting Issue Pre-readings

 Organizing the U.S. Health Care Delivery System for High Performance.pdf Please read the Executive Summary

Payment Reform

 Follow the Money_Payment Reform.pdf Please read the Executive Summary

 Getting What We Pay For.pdf

 Payment reform preread.pdf

HIT

 HITRoadmapExSum.pdf

 HIT Crosscutting PreRead.pdf

Workforce

 HealthcareWorkforce.pdf

 Physician Supply.pdf Please read the Executive Summary

Disparities

 Mead_racialethnicdisparities_chartbook_.pdf  

Closing the Divide: How Medical Homes Promote Equity in Health Care: Results From The Commonwealth Fund 2006 Health Care Quality Survey