Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 17. Cross-Cutting Patient Safety Topics/Practices

Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 17. Cross-Cutting Patient Safety Topics/Practices

Making Healthcare Safer III – a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) – reviews 47 practices that target patient safety improvement across healthcare settings. Cultural competence is one of the patient safety practices covered in the report.

Access the chapter Cross-Cutting Patient Safety Topics/Practices for a summary of the evidence published from 2008 onward on cultural competency as a patient safety practice. Go to https://www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/cross-cutting.pdf, and scroll down page 17-41, where the Cultural Competency section (17.4) begins.

Also, visit AHRQ’s new index of resources on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services at: https://www.ahrq.gov/sdoh/clas/index.html.

Chapters

Diagnostic Errors (PDF, 925 KB)
Failure To Rescue (PDF, 618 KB)
Sepsis Recognition (PDF, 1 MB)
Clostridioides difficile Infection (PDF, 2.33 MB)
Infections Due to Other Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (PDF, 2.7 MB)
Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (PDF, 519 KB)
Harms Due to Anticoagulants (PDF, 548 KB)
Harms Due to Diabetic Agents (PDF, 354 KB)
Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults (PDF, 379 KB)
Harms Due to Opioids (PDF, 660 KB)
Patient Identification Errors in the Operating Room (PDF, 313 KB)
Infusion Pumps (PDF, 387 KB)
Alarm Fatigue (PDF, 413 KB)
Delirium (PDF, 533 KB)
Care Transitions (PDF, 414 KB)
Venous Thromboembolism (PDF, 366 KB)
Cross-Cutting Patient Safety Topics/Practices (PDF, 1.7 MB)