IHI's Patient Safety Essential Toolkit: benefits and limitations

Summary

Designed and tested by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI)’s world-renowned safety experts, the Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit can help you improve teamwork and communication, understand the underlying issues that can cause errors, and create and maintain reliable systems. IHI's Vice President, Frank Federico, helped develop the contents of the new toolkit. In the following interview, he provides an overview of how to put the toolkit to good use.