DoD Patient Safety Program Monthly eBulletin - May 2015
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The DoD Patient Safety Program eBulletin delivers patient safety updates, news, useful tips and resources. This month’s issue spotlights the importance of reporting to drive performance improvement in patient safety across the Military Health System. You can also check out a Patient Safety Awareness Week 2015 success story, a very important CE update, a Sentinel Event Spotlight and much more. Enjoy!  Contents Announcements/Reminders Announcements/Reminders
Feature: Reporting to Drive Performance Improvement in Patient Safety*The goal of the DoD Patient Safety Program is to create a culture of patient safety and quality in the Military Health System. By encouraging a system’s approach to creating a safer patient environment that...Read more
A Patient Safety Awareness Week 2015 Highlight: Columbus Air Force Base – 14th Medical GroupThe week of 8-14 March, 2015 was National Patient Safety Awareness Week. This year, just like we have done in the past, the DoD Patient Safety Program team invited Military Treatment Facilities CONUS and OCONUS to...Read more
Continuing Education Update: Announcing New CE Provider for Patient Safety Training ActivitiesDear patient safety professionals across the Military Health System, please note that due to a change in their internal management model, Duke Office of Continuing Medical Education (DOCME) will be...Read more
TeamSTEPPS® Continuing Education Course Planning ChecklistWhen planning TeamSTEPPS Train the Trainer and Train the Staff activities, there are several accreditation requirements that must be met in order for attendees to be...Read more
Webinar Spotlight: I-PASS: Integrating High Quality Handoffs into TeamSTEPPS and Hospital CareA few years ago, the I-PASS Study – which aims to improve safety by standardizing provider communication, particularly during transitions in care – was launched in response to...Read more
Sentinel Event Spotlight: URFO: Surgical DrainsThis Sentinel Event Spotlight will focus on sentinel events within the MHS related to the retention of foreign objects caused by...Read more
PSR Data Pulse UpdateReleased on the 16th of every month, this report offers a snapshot of PSR events reported. This one page document provides a...Read more
Upcoming Events
Patient Safety Learning Circles: I-PASS: Integrating High Quality Handoffs into TeamSTEPPS and Hospital Care Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 13 May, 2015 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST In this free AHRQ webinar, Christopher Landrigan, MD, MPH, Research Director of the Inpatient Pediatrics Service at Boston Children's Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, will be joined by Army Col. Clifton Yu, MD, Director of Medical Education at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. They will present their work on the I-PASS study, which aims to improve safety by standardizing provider communication, particularly during transitions in care. Drs. Landrigan and Yu serve as lead investigators in this project. Their presentation will seek to:
From Med Wreck to Med Rec: Results, Lessons Learned, and Implications from the Multicenter Medication Reconciliation Quality Improvement Study (MARQUIS) – National Patient Safety Foundation** 26 May, 2015 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST This NPSF webinar will inform learners about a multi-centered study designed to improve medication reconciliation processes, including components of a quality improvement toolkit, quantitative results of the study, lessons learned for successful implementation, and implications and next steps for hospitals, health systems, and national patient safety leaders who wish to improve medication safety during transitions of care. This presentation will seek to:
Featured Speaker:
Patient Safety Workshops: On-Demand eLearning: Patient Safety Reporting System v1.1 eLearning Course This course introduces basic navigation and functionality features of the PSR system and the roles of system users, such as event reporters, event handlers, and investigators. The course can be accessed through MHS Learn.
On-Demand eLearning: Patient Safety Reporting: Intermediate Course* Targeted to Patient Safety Managers and other MTF staff already familiar with basic functionalities of the Patient Safety Reporting System, this course is designed to help learners hone the decision-making skills needed to effectively manage patient safety event data in PSR, as part of the ongoing effort to eliminate preventable harm at MTFs.
On-Demand eLearning: Root Cause Analysis*
Patient Safety Reading CornerThese articles are external and provided for information purposes only. The DoD does not sponsor these websites.
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