Guides and Frameworks (Canadian Patient Safety Institute)

2015-03-01

Canadian Patient Safety Institute

This resource was archived on March 14, 2019 and will no longer be updated. | This free resource is designed to help you successfully implement interventions in your organization. The Getting Started Kit contains clinical information, information on the science of improvement, and everything you...

2016-04-01

Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Please see the Medication Reconciliation Getting Started Kit for more information - https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-qh3v-ad54 | Measurement is essential to monitoring success and helps guide your team towards your specific intervention goal. Measurement also tells us what's working and what's not, and...

2017-01-01

Kuo, Alex MH, Monkman, Helen, Borycki, Elizabeth M., Kushniruk, Andre W., Sever, Lisa, Watt, Alice, Carthy, Brenda, Leung, Valerie, Cass, Mike, Nayani, Seema

This toolkit was prepared by researchers from the University of Victoria, in collaboration with AE Informatics Inc., ISMP Canada and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute with funding provided by Canada Health Infoway. It explores current electronic MedRec (eMedRec) practices in Canada and...

2011-01-01

Emanuel, L. L., Taylor, L., Hain, A., Combes, J. R., Hatlie, M. J., Karsh, B., Lau, D. T., Shalowitz, J., Shaw, T., Walton, M.

The Patient Safety Education Program — Canada (PSEP — Canada) is a conference-based education dissemination method, which uses a train-the-trainer curriculum-driven approach grounded in specific adult learning methods to teach both content and how to disseminate it. Participants who complete the...

2012-06-01

Bell, Chaim, Bernier, Paule, Boiteau, Paul, Cass, Mike, Couves, Leanne, DesRoches, Vanda, Duchscherer, Greg, Harries, Bruce, Krahn, Gordon, Laporta, Denny, MacLaurin, Anne, Martin, Claudio, Mawdsley, Cathy, Microys, Sherissa, Muscedere, John, Northway, Tracie, Skrobik, Yoanna, Turple, Jennifer

This free resource is designed to help you successfully implement interventions in your organization. The Getting Started Kit contains clinical information, information on the science of improvement, and everything you need to know to start using the intervention.

2012-01-01

Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Patients for Patient Safety Canada

Empower yourself with information and tools to help you ask good questions, connect with the right people, and learn as much as you can to keep you or a family member safe while receiving healthcare. Questions Are the Answer helps you effectively prepare for making decisions about medical...

2016-04-01

Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Measurement is essential to monitoring success and helps guide your team towards your specific intervention goal. Measurement also tells us what's working and what's not, and provides evidence to inspire other healthcare providers to improve the quality of patient safety. | La mesure est...

2015-09-01

Bernier, Paule, Boiteau, Paul, Couves, Leanne, Harries, Bruce, Laporta, Denny, Martin, Claudio, Mawdsley, Cathy, Muscedere, John, Skrobik, Yoanna, Williams, Carla

Sepsis is a potentially fatal condition involving the body's response to a severe infection. It manifests in various ways and may involve fever, low blood pressure, and dysfunction in vital organs such as the brain, heart, kidneys, and lungs. Sepsis affects 30,000 Canadians each year, and over...

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...

2017-01-01

Geerts, William, Diamantouros, Artemis

This item was archived in 2019 and is no longer being updated to stay current. Venous thromboembolism comprises both deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) and is one of the most common and preventable complications of hospitalization.1 Many risk factors for developing VTE have...