Web Links to Online Resources

Listed below are several worthwhile online resources for healthcare quality and patient safety professionals and educators. New resources are periodically added to the list.

Quality Management

QI Guide on Improving Nursing Care

Quality improvement basics

A Guide to Real-World Evaluations of Primary Care Interventions

Enhancing Rehabilitation Care: Processes and Structures from Leading Organizations

Guide to Improving Care Processes and Outcomes in Health Centers

Data Analytics in the Health Care Safety Net

Listing of many health data tools and utilization statistic sources

Quality improvement storyboard template

Care Coordination Toolkit

Minnesota Public Health and Quality Improvement Resources & Tools

Why Hospital Improvement Efforts Fail: A View from the Front Line

Patient Safety

Collaborative for Accountability and Improvement

PSNet: Patient safety primers

All Cause Harm Prevention in Nursing Homes

Safer Healthcare: Strategies for the Real World. Vincent & Amalberti. 2016. Springer Open. ISBN: 978-3-319-25557-6.

Capture Falls Project

RCA2: Improving Root Cause Analyses and Actions to Prevent Harm (2015)

Joint Commission’s Patient Safety Systems chapters for various types of providers

Caring for the caregivers (second victims of adverse event)

Safety Is Personal: Partnering with Patients and Families for the Safest Care

Canadian Incident Analysis Framework (pdf)

VA National Center for Patient Safety

Thought Paper: How Can Leaders Influence Patient Safety Culture?

Toolkit to Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers