Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Toolkit
 
• Published March 2019

Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit.

Boston, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2019.

This toolkit provides access to nine key tools to help organizations improve teamwork, incident analysis, and communication as well as templates to support their use and instructions to begin associated processes. Featured tools include the Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation approach, huddle agendas, and failure modes and effects analysis.

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