Patient Safety Best Practices Conference News

Patient Safety Leadership Through Innovation and Evolution

View slideshow from the 2003 conference

2003 Conference Presentations

You can download conference presentations below. These presentations are available as Microsoft PowerPoint documents. Handouts and the agenda are available as Microsoft Word documents.

• Agenda - Patient Safety Leadership Through Innovation and Evolution
• The Michigan Consumer Health Care Coalition -- (Conusmer Handout)
• It Starts at the Top: CEO and Board Responsibility and Accountability for Patient Safety
• It Starts At The Top: Trinity Health’s Patient Safety Initiative
• Reducing Risk and Promoting Safety: A Role for Patients
• Obtaining Results
• The Business Case for Patient Safety
• The Business Case for Patient Safety -- (Handout)
• Innovative Techniques for Physicians to Improve Safety
• Innovations in Patient Safety Trinity Health
• Techniques & Tools: Effectively Development and Promoting A Culture of Patient Safety
• Bringing Barcoding to the Bedside
• Telehealth in Michigan: A Safe Passages - Quarterly Newsletter
• BCBSM Foundation
• Improving Patient Safety in Hospitals: Turning Ideas into Action
• Urinary Catheter-Related Infections and Infection Prevention Systems
• Turning Ideas Into Action
• List of Poster Presentations
• Conference Recap
• Conference Summary

Conference Abstracts

You can download conference abstracts below. These abstracts are available as Microsoft Word documents.

• The Detroit Medical Center's Quality Management System Re-Design and ISO 9001:2000
• Improving Patient Safety Through the Implementation of a Patient Safety Curriculum for Staff
• HR 2.1 INDICATOR GRAPHS
• Patient Safety Prevention Program St. John Macomb Hospital St. John Health System
• Spectrum Health
• St. Joseph Mercy Oakland
• Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program St. John Macomb Hospital St. John Health System
• Reducing Patient Falls
• Usability Testing Evaluation for Improving Training and Design Feedback: Defibrillator
• Reducing Restraints-The IRIS program
• Improving Clinical Performance with CDR-Web™
• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis of Heparin IV Infusions: A Vital Component of a Multidisciplinary Medication Safety Plan
• SURGICAL INFECTION PREVENTION
• "Beyond" Back to Sleep
• Altering The Prescribing Patterns of Meperidine: A Patient Safety Initiative
• Saint Joseph Mercy Health System - A Success Story with 10 Years of CPOE Use
• The Trouble With "U"
• Safer, More Effective IV Heparin Therapy
• Enhancing Medication Safety Practices of Nurses Through the Use of Web-Based Education, the Pathways for Medication Safety SM Tools and a Simulation Training Experience