Regulations and Standards
- National Patient Safety Goals
- Sentinel Event Policy
- Performance Measurement
- Newsroom: Healthcare Issues
- Joint Commission Fact Sheet (see "Patient Safety" & "Performance Measurement"
- Patient Safety Standards / Center for Patient Safety
- Pain Management Standards
- Quality Reports
- JCAHO Revises Standards to Help Reduce Medical Errors
- Standards, Guidelines and Statements
- Anesthesiology Policies and Procedures (UCI Anesthesiology intranet link)
- QA/PDS - Relational Database (link)
- Defining Quality of Perioperative Care by Statistical Process Control of Adverse Outcomes
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, England
Longnecker's Anesthesiology, Approaches to Quality Improvement in Anesthesia Care (Quality of Care Indicators)
Coming Soon!
PDF document coming soon! (Anesthesia Event Process)
Coming soon! (2007 Manual for Anesthesia Department Organization Management -ASA)
- Also see JCAHO, CMS & AHRQ
- Initiatives: in Safe Patient Care
- APSF (The Official Journal of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation)
- International Anesthesia Research Society (Supplement to Anesthesia & Analgesia)
PQRI (see CMS)
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Avedis Donabedian ("case mix adjustment")
Six Sigma (DMAIC)
Lean
Investigations & Root Cause Analysis
- (see JCAHO, AHRQ and Anesthesia Event Documentation Process)
Adverse events and near miss reporting in the NHS
Statistics (Quality Tool Box)
- Defining Quality of Perioperative Care by Statistical Process Control of Adverse
- Outcomes (see ASA above)
- Engineering Statistics Handbook (NIST)
- Multivariate Analysis in Anesthesiology - link 1
- Multivariate Analysis in Anesthesiology - link 2
Table of contents for Avoiding common anesthesia errors / editor, Cathy Marcucci (from the Library of Congress Catalog - Note: Contents data are machine generated based on pre-publication provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding).
PDF documents coming soon!
