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Airway Safety
This workgroup is currently discussing unplanned extubation, safer airway management, as well as pediatric and neonatal airway safety, specificially.
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- 1 year, 3 months ago
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Blood Glucose Management
This workgroup works on actionable steps to improve hyperglycemic and hypoglycemic management.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Clinical Emergencies
Join this workgroup to discuss clinical emergencies, rapid response teams and the prevention of in-hospital cardiac arrest.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Community-acquired Severe Upper Respiratory Tract Infection
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led to the establishment of this new workgroup on community-acquired severe upper respiratory tract infections that can be prevented in hospital.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Creating a Foundation for Safe and Reliable Care
How to successfully improve safe and reliable care for patients.aa
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- 1 year, 5 months ago
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Delirium
The current focus of this workgroup is on post-operative delirium in older adults.
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- 6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Effective Communication
Effective communication gives rise to important subAPSS like healthcare literacy as well as hand-off communications. Join to discuss these topics and help revise these subAPSS.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Embolic Events
This workgroup is focused on the prevention of air embolism and venous thromboembolism.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Enteral Tube Safety
Join this group to help build solutions for the proper placement and verification of nasogastric (NG) tubes.
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- 6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Falls and Mobility
Falls are a leading cause of harm. This workgroup is discussing early mobility management, falls and fall prevention.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Healthcare Organization Education Planning
Join this workgroup to help address the education for frontline professionals in hospitals and healthcare organizations that aligns with the performance improvement, communication, and other organizational processes.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Healthcare-associated Infections
We know HAIs are a leading cause of harm and death in hospitals and healthcare organizations. This workgroup focuses on the leading HAIs.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Medication Safety
Join this workgroup to focus on general medication erorrs, antimicrobial stewardship, opioid safety stewardship, pediatric adverse drug events, drug shortages, and standardizing and safeguarding medicine administration.
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- 9 months ago
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Mental Health
Join this workgroup to focus on collaborative care planning, suicide prevention and detox, overdose and withdrawal.
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- 1 year, 1 month ago
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Metrics Integrity
Ensuring the integrity of metrics as they relate to measuring patient safety outcomes.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Neonatal Safety
Join this workgroup if you'd like to contribute to building the subAPSS around optimal neonatal oxygen targeting as well as detecting CCHD in newborns.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Obstetric Safety
This workgroup focuses on the leading causes of maternal mortality: severe hypertension, including pre-eclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) and unnecessary c-sections.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Pain Management
With over 50% of patients receiving opioids during their hospital stay, hospitals must have a standardized process for assessing the need for opioids, the potential for alternatives, and the protocol for monitoring the patient once opioids are administered.
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- 1 year, 3 months ago
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Patient Blood Management
1 in 10 in-patients receive at least one unit of blood, making red blood cell (RBC) transfusions one of the most common procedures for hospitals in the US and Europe (Cost et al., 2009). This workgroup discusses a standardized patient blood management and transfusion protocol.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Patient Safety Curriculum
The PSMF has developed a robust patient safety curriculum for schools and universities to implement. Join this workgroup to help to continue expanding this curriculum.
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- 12 months ago
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Person and Family Centeredness
Holistic and thorough person and family integration into the care team is one of the key components for improved outcomes, both in the hospital and post-discharge.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Prevention of Skin Breakdown
The changes in medications, diet, and mobility inherent in hospitalization can leave patients susceptible to skin breakdown and pressure ulcers. If not treated appropriately, these wounds can escalate into other complications such as, but not limited to, infections or sepsis. Join this workgroup to discuss opportunities to avoid this.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Restraint Safety
This workgroup will discuss the appropriate use of restraints to avoid patient harm.
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Sepsis
Join this workgroup to focus on the early detection and treatment of sepsis.
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- 5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Support Care
This workgroup focuses on palliative care as it relates to patient safety.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Surgical and Procedural Safety
Join this workgroup to help build out the subAPSS related to moderate sedation and surgical site infections (SSIs).
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Ventilation Management
This workgroup focuses on mechanical ventilation one of the most common interdisciplinary interventions for hospitalized patients.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Workplace Safety
Join this workgroup to discuss the APSS related to keeping our health workers safe.
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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