Useful Links

• Medical Errors: The scope of the problem
• National Patient Safety Foundation
• Institute for Safe Medical Practices
• VA National Center for Patient Safety
• The Leapfrog Group
• AHRQ Evidence Report on patient safety practices - Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices
• British Medical Journal Theme Issue on Medical Error: 18 March 2000 (Volume 320, Issue 7237)
• World Health Organization on Patient Safety
• The Joint Commission on Patient safety
• American College of Physicians on Patient Safety
• American College of Surgeons on Patient Safety
• AHA on Quality and Patient Safety
• Northwestern University Center for Patient Safety