• Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation - AHRQ resource
• Patient Safety: The Other Side of the Quality Equation []
• HealthGrades Quality Study. Fifth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospital’s Report
• AHRQ Quality and Patient Safety
• AHRQ Medical Errors and Patient Safety. Sign up for a free newsletter.
• AHRQ PSNet Patient Safety Network
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement
• The Leapfrog Group
• AHRQ bimonthly e-journal Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare (also available as a print journal)
• Murray, M. Chapter 11: Automated Medication Dispensing Devices
• H&HN''s Most Wired Hospitals 2008
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• ScriptPro
• Ascend eMAR (Hann´s on Software)
• Crew Resource Management
• Johns Hopkins ICU Check List
• National Patient Safety Foundation
• AHRQ Health IT Bibliography (Patient Safety)

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Important Books

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  To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System: "Sentinel book that describes in detail the patient safety issues facing American Medicine. They begin the dialogue about how information technology can be part of the solution." Free PDF summary is available on the site.
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  Preventing Medication Errors, Philip Aspden, Julie Wolcott, J. Lyle Bootman, Linda R. Cronenwett, Editors
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  Patient Safety: Achieving a new standard of care Philip Aspden, Janet M. Corrigan, Julie Wolcott, Shari M. Erickson, Editors