Summary
Making Healthcare Safer III report is the third in a series of reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which reviews research supporting patient safety practices in place to reduce patient harms.
This supplement from Shoemaker-Hunt et al. presents the reviews for eight of the patient safety practices from the Making Healthcare Safer III report:
- The use of rapid response teams to reduce failure-to-rescue events.
- The use of patient monitoring systems to improve sepsis recognition and outcomes.
- Environmental cleaning and decontamination to prevent Clostridioides difficile infection in healthcare settings.
- Chlorhexidine bathing strategies for multidrug-resistant organisms
- Using deprescribing practices and STOPP criteria to reduce harm and preventable adverse drug events in older adults
- The effect of opioid stewardship interventions on key outcomes
- System-level patient safety practices that aim to reduce medication errors associated with infusion pumps
- Improving team performance and patient safety on the job through team training and performance support tools.
Advancing patient safety: Reviews from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Making Healthcare Safer III report
https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2020/09001/Advancing_Patient_Safety__Reviews_From_the_Agency.1.aspx
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