Monday, May 07, 2007

Mistake-Proofing the Design of Health Care Processes.

www.ahrq.gov/qual/mistakeproof/

Grout JR. AHRQ Publication No. 07-P0020, May 2007.


This new report from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a synthesis of practical examples from the real world of health care on the use of process or design features to prevent medical errors or the negative impact of errors.


It contains over 150 examples of mistake-proofing that can be applied in health care—and in many cases relatively inexpensively.

PDF File (1.6 MB).