Guidelines by Topic

The AMC PSO has released a set of consensus-based recommendations and risk mitigation strategies that would help to inform best practices and improve patient safety in the following areas:

Patient Safety Guidance for Lost Specimens

See: Patient Safety Guidelines for Mitigating Risk with Pathology Specimens

Patient Safety Framework for OR Fires

See: Guidance for Perioperative Fire Safety

Patient Safety Framework for Inter-hospital Transfers

See: Patient Safety Framework for Inter-hospital Transfers

Patient Safety in the Virtual Visit

See: Patient Safety Guidance for the Virtual Visit

Safety in the Emergency Department: Improving the Care of Behavioral Health Patients

See: Safety in the Emergency Department: Improving the Care of Behavioral Health Patients

Wrong-level Spine Surgery

See: Patient Safety Framework for Mitigating Wrong-level Spine Surgery

Interventional Radiology

See: Patient Safety Framework for Mitigating Risk in Interventional Radiology

EHR Downtime

See: Patient Safety Guidance for Electronic Health Record Downtime

Neonatal Encephalopathy Guidelines: effective use of therapeutic hypothermia

See: Therapeutic Hypothermia in Neonates

These can also be found in the Decision Support pages of our site along with other CRICO Guidelines.

Papers

Safety Culture

What are safety culture and organizational resilience, and how do they support patient safety and caregivers? This publication explores current and emerging trends in the safety culture movement and existing and new strategies worth leveraging.
See: Safety Culture and Risk Reliability in Health Care

Alerts

Library of Patient Safety Alerts

AMC PSO makes patient safety learnings available to the public as part of CRICO’s ongoing commitment towards improving patient safety across the continuum of care. These learnings are in a newsletter called the AMC PSO Patient Safety Alerts and are short PDF documents that summarize a topic covered by our members. The AMC PSO is also part of the National Safe Table convening. Learnings from these sessions will be available in this library as well.
See:  the Patient Safety Alerts Library