The University of Michigan Health System recognizes the importance of promoting best practices that exemplify safe and high quality patient care. In an effort to achieve this objective, "Improving Patient Safety in Hospitals: Turning Ideas into Action" was developed as a resource for clinicians and administrative leaders responsible for strategic initiatives aimed at creating and sustaining quality of care and patient safety in hospitals. This toolkit addresses issues considered to be critical to this mission and is intended to present ways of turning patient safety ideals into practical and achievable strategies.

The tookit is divided into the following chapters

The UMHS Patient Safety Toolkit is part of a larger project to disseminate 'best practices' in patient safety undertaken by the University of Michigan Health System, and supported by an educational grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation. Other parts of this project include: a conference titled "Improving Patient Safety in Hospitals: Turning Ideas into Action" held November 22, 2002 at the UM Towsley Center, and webcast to sites around the state; a program of customized, "hands-on" workshops for clinician-leader teams at selected hospitals around the state; and an Internet Self-Study CME Program based on the November 2002 conference.

For any questions concerning the Patient Safety Toolkit, including reprint permission issues, please contact Maria Pernal-Wallag at (734) 615-5374 or via e-mail at mariasw@umich.edu.

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