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Patient Safety Leadership Through Innovation and Evolution

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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 Healths 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