Tools

• PSES Pathways (Members Only)
  
• Health IT Safe Practices
  • Recommendations
  • Toolkit for the Safe Use of Copy and Paste
• AHRQ Common Formats
• Color-Coded Wristband Standardization in Kentucky
• Free Patient Safety Tools from AHRQ: TeamSTEPPS Tools and Materials 
• Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals 
• 2007 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports
• Overhead Paging Codes for Emergency Situations
  • FAQs
  • Standardized Codes

Links/Information

• PSO Fast Facts - The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient Safety Act) authorized
  the creation of PSOs to improve quality and safety by reducing the incidence of events that adversely affect
  patients. To implement the Patient Safety Act, the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Agency
  for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) published the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Final Rule
  (Patient Safety Rule).

  AHRQ has received many questions regarding the implementation of the Patient Safety Rule and about PSOs.
  In response to these questions, and in anticipation of additional inquiries, AHRQ has prepared this list of
  frequently asked questions and corresponding answers: http://www.ahrq.gov/about/eventix.htm