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CDC: Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities
APIC State-of-the-Art Report: The role of infection control during construction in health care facilities
Private Rooms and the Environment of Care
Facility standardization
Facility Design for Safety: Evidence-Based Design Creates Safer, Healthier Facilities
Enhancing the Traditional Hospital Design Process: A Focus on Patient Safety
Role of Physical Environment in the Hospital of 21st century
Improving Quality through the Environment of Care
Building in Infection Control from the Ground Up
Evidence-Based Design Creates Safer, Healthier Facilities
Noise control
Stop the Noise : Reduce Errors by creating Quieter Hospital
Enhance the Healing Environment by Reducing Noise
Planning, Design, and Construction of Health Care Facilities (7-16)
Lighting
Efficient Hospital Lighting
Planning, Design, and Construction of Health Care Facilities (7-16)
Distraction
Medication errors in U.S. hospitals
Adjacencies
Enhancing the traditional hospital design process: A focus on patient safety
Environmental alarm systems
Security Systems
Securing Your Organization’s Safety: A Proactive Approach
Focus on Five: Preventing Violence in Emergency Departments
Monitoring Conditions in the Environment
HIPAA Security Preparedness
Security notice, May 2005
Security Issues for Today’s Health Care Organization
Electronic Door Locks: Life Safety vs Security
Planning, Design, and Construction of Health Care Facilities (67)
Environment of Care Handbook, Second Edition (39-46)

Safe design of special facilities

Intensive care units
ICU Safety Reporting System
Occupational Safety in Surgery
Collaborative Efforts to Improve Care in ICU
APIC Report - Role of Infection Control during Construction in Health Care Facility
ICU Toolkit : Improve Safety and Quality of Patient Care
High Reliability Organization Strategy
USP Formulary Design Principles
Pharmacy
Planning, Design, and Construction of Health Care Facilities (130-135)
Laboratory
Planning, Design, and Construction of Health Care Facilities (124-129)
Imaging
Safety Design Considerations for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Projectile Cylinder Accidents Resulting from the Presence of Ferromagnetic Nitrous Oxide or Oxygen Tanks in the MR Suite
ACR White Paper on Magnetic Resonance Safety
Standard of Practice for Design of MRI facilities
How to improve MRI facility
Patient Info : Safety MRI
Operating rooms
Goal ImageNational Patient Safety Goal 11A

Sentinel Event Alert #29
Focus on Five: Preventing Surgical Fires
Incorporating Patient Safe design into Guidelines
Security of Anesthesia Cart Medications
Security of Medications
Preventing operating room fires
Catheterization labs
Endoscopy units
Isolation rooms
Design for Isolation, Part 2—UWHC ED Will Feature Airborne Infectin Isolatin and 100% Exhaust Air at the Flip of a Switch
Emergency Department Decontamination, Part 1—Suite Created at UWHC to Meet Special Emergency Needs

Utility Systems

Strategies for Enhancing Patient Safety Through Effective Utilities Management
Preventing operating room fires
Electrical
Preventing Adverse Events Caused by Emergency Electrical Power System Failure
Environment of Care Handbook, Second Edition (103-114)
Managing Hospital Emergency Power Programmes
Electrical Safety - Ungrounded Power Supply Systems in Medical Sites
Hamot Medical Center Power Management System Gaurds Against Blackout
Water supply
Safe Household Water: Prevents Disease, Saves Lives
Environment of Care Handbook, Second Edition (103-114)
Environment of Care Handbook, Second Edition (103-114)
Environment of Care Handbook, Second Edition (103-114)
Sewage systems
HVAC
WHO:Hazard Prevention and Control in the Work Environment-Airborne Dust
Hazardous waste management
Sentinel Event Alert #22
Protecting Those Who Serve: Health Care Worker Safety (18-20)
Protecting Those Who Serve: Health Care Worker Safety (40-41)
Protecting Those Who Serve: Health Care Worker Safety (103-111)
Environment of Care Handbook, Second Edition (47-56)
Medical gases
Sentinel Event Alert #29
Sentinel Event Alert #21
Environment of Care Handbook, Second Edition (103-114)
FDA Guidance on Medical Gas Management
Compressed Gas Association Free Safety Alerts
Safety Tool for Compressed Gas Cylinder Use

Medical Equipment

Health Technology Assessment Information Service (HTAIS)
Ensuring Safe Use of Long Term Oxygen Therapy
Physiologic monitors
Hemodynamic "Optimization" in anesthesia
Infusion pumps
Using Home Medical Equipment in a Hospital: To Transfer or Not to Transfer?
Improving Infusion Device Safety
Standardising and centralising Infusion Devices
US Guidance for Industry and Premarket and Design Control Reviewers
Best Practices for Reducing Transfusion Errors
Using Smart Infusion Pumps to Manage Medication Administration
Security notice, May 2005
Right programming of pumps to prevent errors in the infusion process
Using "no problem found" in infusion pump programing as a springboard for learnning about human factors engineering
Case Study: Infusion Pump Requirement Dropped from 2006 National Patient Safety Goals, One Large System Goes “Above and Beyond”
Tubes and catheters
SOL_image Avoiding Catheter and Tubing Mis-Connections (PDF)

Sentinel Event Alert #36
Shorter Catheters—A Simple Solution to a Rare but Deadly Complication
Standardizing the Pediatric/Neonatal Parenteral Medication Delivery System
Improving the Timeliness and Safety of IV Antineoplastic Admixture Dispensing
A reminder reduces urinary catheterization in hospitalized patients
The Johns Hopkins Hospital: Identifying and addressing risks and safety issues
Shorter catheters: A simple solution to a rare but deadly complication
Ventilators
Sentinel Event Alert #25
Shifting care of chronic ventilator-dependent patients from the intensive care unit to the nursing home
Dialysis equipment
Cross-Contamination Linked to Hemodialysis
Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative (DOQI)
Clinical alarm systems
Case Study: Improving the Effectiveness of clinical Alarm Systems
UCLA Clinical Alarms Safety Poster
Reducing Errors in Medicine : Priority for Lab and Nation
Audible Beep Physiological Alarms
2005 Joint Commission NPSG

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