The website of the Joint Commission International Patient Safety Center provides resources and information about patient safety for patients, their families, personnel from health care institutions, and all health care professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied professionals. This website is designed to help improve the overall quality of care and patient safety in a multitude of health care environments. The website includes the Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Alert patient safety newsletter, Patient Safety Link a complimentary newsletter on patient safety, patient safety tools, and a series of brochures on how to prevent medical mistakes, in addition to other resources.
In April 2006, the Center launched a new resource on its website called Patient Safety Practices: An Online Resource for Improving Patient Safety. The resource is available at http://www.jcipatientsafety.org/psp and features links to more than 900 established sites that include a wide variety of respected domestic and international patient safety sources. The database draws heavily upon the classification system suggested by the Sentinel Event Database that was created by the Joint Commission more than a decade ago. The Patient Safety Practices are organized under broad clinical event and health care process or clinical outcomes headings which are further broken down into categories and specific topic areas.