Patient Safety Awareness Week | Agency for Health Research and Quality

Patient Safety Awareness Week | Agency for Health Research and Quality

AHRQ’s Making Healthcare Safer III Report Identifies 47 Practices To Improve Patient Safety

A new AHRQ report identifies 47 practices that can improve patient safety for a variety of settings and stakeholders. The report, Making Healthcare Safer III, was published as AHRQ and the nation mark Patient Safety Awareness Week, sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. The report's evidence-based, field-tested practices focus on medication management, healthcare-associated infections, nursing-sensitive practices, safety and injury and other issues. They include technological and staffing innovations, hygiene and disinfection interventions to prevent infections and practices to prevent medication error and reduce opioid misuse/overdose. Access an AHRQ press release, comparative information about previous Making Healthcare Safer reports, and more from AHRQ on Patient Safety Awareness Week.