JEFFSelects: Patient Safety

General Resources | Medications & Devices | Consumer Information | Journals & Books

Medications & Devices

• FDA Patient Safety News
  Online video news show (with transcripts) for health professionals with information on new drugs, biologics and medical devices, FDA safety notifications and product recalls, and ways to protect patients when using medical products. New broadcasts monthly, with RSS feed option.
  • MEDWATCH
    2007 Safety Alerts for Drugs, Biologics, Medical Devices, and Dietary Supplements from the FDA. RSS feed option for updates.
  • MEDWATCH & Patient Safety Training Seminar
    An hour-long seminar outlining the FDA post-marketing safety surveillance for medical products. Primarily for students in medical, nursing, pharmacy and allied healthcare training programs. Secondary audiences include healthcare practitioners, caregivers and consumers.
• Institute for Safe Medication Practices
  The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), based in suburban Philadelphia, is the nation’s only 501c(3) nonprofit organization devoted entirely to medication error prevention and safe medication use. Use the Quick Links pulldown to select resources on Education, Medication Safety Tools, News and Events, Safety Alerts, etc.
• Medical Device Safety Reports
  A repository of medical device incident and hazard information independently investigated by ECRI Institute, a nonprofit health research agency. Focuses on preventing and reducing medical device risks to patients and healthcare workers.
• PharmSafety.org
  A non-commercial website providing educational information for pharmacists and pharmacy personnel. Content based on best practice standards and research on the role of cognitive, psychosocial and other human factors in the practice of pharmacy, with ideas to help enhance job performance, satisfaction and patient safety.

In Individual Fields

• Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
  Clinical safety tools, educational tools, and newsletters to promote communication about the causes and prevention of anesthetic morbidity and mortality.