Improve patient safety and quality of care with evidence-based tools and resources. Here you’ll find tools and resources developed by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute in collaboration with experts, as well as useful links to resources from other healthcare organizations.
These tools and resources can be used to:
Prevent patient safety incidents.
Properly designing processes and improving communication can improve safety and quality in patient care.
Identify patient safety incidents.
Unfortunately, patient safety incidents and harm cannot always be prevented. It is important to be able to recognize these instances through robust reporting mechanisms. Trigger tools are a resource that can help you identify patient safety incidents.
Learn from patient safety incidents to support improvement strategies.
Once an opportunity for learning has been identified it is important to understand, through excellent analysis, what may be done to reduce the likelihood of recurrence, and carefully implement changes. The Canadian Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Framework is one tool that can help you learn from patient safety incidents.