Patient Safety

Our goal: To advance a total systems approach to safety around the world. Together with like-minded health care leaders, organizations, practitioners, and patients, IHI drives innovative thinking and bold leaps forward that none of us could achieve on our own. More >>

In the Spotlight

Family Caregivers: Protect Your Loved Ones from Medication Overload
This article from Health Aging magazine provides suggestions for how to ensure that loved ones, especially older adults, do not suffer from medication overload.

This Inexpensive Action Lowers Hospital Infections and Protects Against Flu Season
This Forbes article explores studies that show that managing the relative humidity of the care environment can reduce the spread of infection, suggesting low-cost actions to improve safety.

Handoff Bundle Decreased Medical Errors and Preventable Adverse Events
Use of a handoff bundle was shown to reduce medical error rates in an academic family medicine inpatient setting. The study, published in Medicine journal, built on the findings from a 2013 study, testing use of the bundle with a more varied sample of patients.

Start Small to Create a Safety Culture
Read about Vanderbilt University Medical Center's journey toward a culture of safety. Starting with improved handwashing, they applied lessons learned to a range of other challenges across the organization. Get more ideas for improving safety culture at the IHI National Forum on December 8-11 in Orlando, Florida.

Patient Safety Executive Development Program
March 12–18, 2020 | Boston, MA

With today’s shrinking health care budgets and growing focus on costs, it has never been more important to have a robust safety plan. Maintaining a powerful safety program is essential to the long-term health of your department, organization, or health care system — and to ensuring that your patients receive the safe and reliable care they deserve. To position your organization for success, attend IHI’s Patient Safety Executive Development Program.
Redesigning Event Review with RCA2
March 17, 2020 | Online Course with Coaching

In this 11-week course, Redesigning Event Review with RCA2, you’ll learn to improve your event review process with a unique approach — endorsed by The Joint Commission and leaders in patient safety across the United States and abroad — that expands upon traditional root cause analysis.
Leading Patient Safety: United Kingdom
31 March - 2 April, 2020 | London, England

IHI’s Accelerated Patient Safety Program is a highly practical and interactive course that gives frontline teams and leaders the skills, tools and insights required to drive tangible improvements in any aspect of Patient Safety or Quality. It is aimed at those who want to or have responsibility to improve the safety of care within their team, department or organization and offers the Framework for Safe, Reliable and Effective Care as a lens through which learning and improvement can be viewed in order to maximise chances of success

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Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS)

The CPPS credential is earned by professionals who demonstrate a high level of proficiency in the core standards of patient safety.

CPPS Review Course
Live Webinar

October 17, 2019
10AM - 5PM ET

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Patient Safety Online Courses

The IHI Open School Patient Safety online course curriculum is packed with new multimedia and the latest thinking in the field, in a mobile-friendly format. Learn More >>