Guides and Frameworks (Canadian Patient Safety Institute)

2014-01-01

Pham, Julius Cuong, Hoffman, Carolyn, Popescu, Ioana Cristina, Ijagbemi, O. Mayowa, Canadian Patient Safety Institute

n recent years, many healthcare organizations have developed local methods for responding to patient safety incidents with processes that are more rigorous than a simple incident report but less rigorous than a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or similar comprehensive review. The World Health...

2018-07-01

Canadian Institute for Health Information, Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Patients expect hospital care to be safe and for most people it is. However, a small proportion of patients experience some type of unintended harm as a result of the care they receive. The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) have...

2015-08-01

Canadian Patient Safety Institute

​​​​​​​The Improvement Frameworks Getting Started Kit is intended to serve as a common document appended to the Safer Healthcare Now! Getting Started Kits. The goal is to help provide a consistent way for teams and individuals to approach the challenge of making changes that result in...

2009-03-01

Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Implementing the Surgical Safety Checklist in your organization is both exciting and challenging. This quick How-To guide provides an overview of the steps you should consider in preparing to use the Checklist in your OR. Other tools that you might find useful are the Detailed Explanation of the...