Medication errors patient safety goals

Since its establishment in 1989, AHRQ has sponsored and conducted research to improve the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and increase access. It also supports research to address patient safety issues and medication errors. AHRQ s goal is to provide information that allows people to make better decisions about healthcare. 

JCAHO has been instrumental in getting safety on the radar screens of all the facilities it surveys. Using information collected about serious medical errors and sentinel events, as well as consensus panels of safety experts, JCAHO has cod-ifled six patient safety goals into standards that became effective in January 2003. The goals, expressed as specific tactics in aJCAHO press release of July 24, 2002, are as follows ... 

To Err Is Human contains a four-part plan for decreasing the number of medical errors, and each part has implications for the pharmacy profession. To provide leadership and a research focus for patient safety. Part one recommends the creation of a center for patient safety within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Pharmacy organizations and pharmacists have the opportunity to contribute by including the study of medical errors in their applied research agendas. Using their expertise, pharmacists can provide input to the national goals, their content, and professional responsibilities for medicahon safety. ... 

It is the mission of ISMP—Spain to enhance the safety of the medication-use system and to improve the quality of patient healthcare. The most important goal is to reduce the risk of medication errors and preventable adverse drug events. 

O ReiUy. American Medical News. Better patient safety is goal of confidentieil EHR error reports. [Online]. Cited 2015 July. Available from http //www.runednews.com/aiticle/ 20130724/profession/130729986/8/ http //www.amednews.com/article/20130724/profession/ 130729986/8/.2013. 

Froedtert began its involvement with Six Sigma by forming a consortium with the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the Medical College of Wisconsin. The goal was to pilot the application of Six Sigma to health care to reduce medical errors and enhance patient safety. 

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