Joint Commission International Center For Patient Safety Launches New Patient Safety Practices Online Resource
(OAKBROOK TERRACE and OAK BROOK, Ill. – April 19, 2006) The Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety today announced the launch of a new “in-development” Patient Safety Practices resource on the Center’s website. This beta version of the new online database offers a rich collection of practices and interventions for preventing adverse events while also soliciting user suggestions for enhancing the content and functionality of the website.
“This online resource of safe practices should be of major assistance to health care professionals in advancing their efforts to deliver safe, high quality care,” says Laura Botwinick, co-director, Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety. “This resource should also be of value to patients and their families in navigating the health care delivery system.”
Patient Safety Practices: An Online Resource for Improving Patient Safety is available at
http://www.jcipatientsafety.org/psp and features links to over 400 established sites that include a wide variety of respected domestic and international patient safety sources. The easy-to-use database is being introduced as a work in progress to encourage users to submit additional safe practices which can be widely shared and to suggest ways in which the database can become an even more helpful resource.
“This database is a simple way of getting practical important information into the hands of health care professionals and other provider organization staff to help them improve patient safety,” say Peter Angood, M.D., co-director, Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety. “This initiative underscores the Center’s commitment to translating available knowledge about patient safety into actionable information.”
The introduction of the Patient Safety Practices site marks the one-year anniversary of the launching of the International Center for Patient Safety website. The database draws heavily upon the Sentinel Event Database that was created by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations a decade ago. It is organized under broad clinical event and health care process headings which are further broken down into categories and specific topic areas. The site also includes a brief survey which invites user participation in the database and suggestions for improving the utility of the site.