Medication safety issue brief 6. Finding and using resources.
It's one thing to understand the theories of patient safety. But it's another thing to carry them out. One helpful method is to use a question-and-answer style tool to examine how your organization measures up. Several tools are widely distributed by organizations like the AHA. There's plenty of other advice available, much of it just a mouse click away (see Action Agenda on flip side of this brief).
D006801:Humans; D008330:Management Audit; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D017751:Safety Management / Q000592:standards*; D012647:Self-Assessment; D014481:United States