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Patient Safety Improvement Program

The ABMS Patient Safety Improvement Program is a professional resource for healthcare personnel to learn safety essentials and implementation methods that can improve patient safety in any clinical setting. This Web-based program is self-paced and focuses on identifying and analyzing errors, determining improvements based on best practices and implementing changes. The program supports initiatives from The Joint Commission, Institute for Healthcare Improvement and other organizations and offers these benefits:

Hospitals and operating organizations: reduce error risks by using the program to address patient safety at a systems level.

Graduate-level medical education programs: create a foundation for knowledge and practice that complements instruction and training.

Professional medical organizations: reinforce patient safety fundamentals that are applicable to all functions, specialties and settings.

ABMS Member Boards: help certified physician specialists satisfy Maintenance of Certification requirements.

Specialty societies, colleges, academies and other CME providers: provide a new option for continuing medical education in this key area. Improvement activities apply broadly across all medical disciplines.

Please contact us to discuss how the ABMS Patient Safety Improvement Program can meet your particular needs.


Supporting Your Efforts to Deliver Safe, High-Quality Care

The ABMS Patient Safety Improvement program consists of four key components: (1) scenarios that illustrate common errors and the complex systems involved, (2) patient safety curriculum in four broad categories, (3) quality improvement fundamentals to apply methods and techniques to clinical environments and (4) patient safety improvement activities that introduce changes that can be incorporated into practice.

Click here to see Patient Safety Scenarios.	Click here to see Patient Safety Curriculum.	Click here to see Patient Safety Quality Improvement Fundementals.	Click here to see Patient Safety Improvement Activities.
Determine patient safety errors	Develop skills and best practices	Improve practice performance	Design and implement changes

Define the problem by identifying these common patient safety errors: • Delayed diagnosis • Medication errors • Wrong patient/ site • Communication failures • System failures • Technology failures • Trained personnel shortage • Testing without informed consent	A robust curriculum, featuring pre- and post-knowledge assessments, uses familiar models and improvement techniques.	Identify areas for change and incorporate quality improvement measures in any practice type or clinical setting. All planning and assessment tools are provided.	Apply the concepts, methods and tools learned to improve performance in key areas of patient safety • Hand hygiene • Medication lists • Allergy lists • Critical test results • Correct person/ site • Safer prescriptions • Discharge communication

Pricing: contact a Business Development Representative.