Making healthcare safer IV: A continuous updating of patient safety harms and practices (AHRQ, 2024)

Summary

The combination of emerging patient safety threats and the growing amount of published patient safety research, patient safety resources and accrediting body standards makes it increasingly difficult to prioritise adopting and implementing evidence-based practices.

The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ’s) fourth iteration of Making Healthcare Safer intends to address this issue by publishing evidence-based reviews of patient safety practices and topics as they are completed. This intentional release of updated reviews will aid healthcare organisation leaders in prioritising implementation of evidence-based practices in a timelier way. The report will also help researchers identify where more research is needed and assist policymakers in understanding which patient safety practices have the supporting evidence for promotion.

Content

Chapters

• Prioritisation of Patient Safety Practices for Making Healthcare Safer IV
• Potential Harms Resulting From Video-Based Telehealth
• Patient and Family Engagement
• Surgical Report Cards and Outcome Measurements
• Opioid Stewardship
• Reducing Adverse Events Related to Anticoagulants
• Implicit Bias Training
• Deprescribing
• Computerised Clinical Decision Support To Prevent Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events
• Fatigue and Sleepiness of Clinicians Due to Hours of Service
• Transmission-Based Precautions for Multidrug-Resistant Organisms
• Infection Surveillance for Clostridiodes difficile, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Carbapenem-Resistant enterobacterales (CRE), and Candida auris
• Failure To Rescue—Rapid Response Systems
• Engaging Family Caregivers
• Sepsis Prediction, Recognition and Intervention