Resource topic: Safety and Patient Outcomes
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Culture Survey

Healthcare organizations can use these survey assessment tools to raise staff awareness about patient safety, assess the current status of patient safety culture,...

Tool
Video Toolkit: AHA Team Training TeamSTEPPS

Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety is evidence-based and can be used by anyone who wants to improve communication and teamwork in...

Video
A Call to Action: Improving Clinician Well-Being and Patient Care and Safety

The Health Policy Institute of Ohio collaborated with The Ohio State University College of Nursing Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based...

Briefs and Summaries
Building a Program on Well-Being: Key Design Considerations to Meet the Unique Needs of Each Organization

This journal article published by Academic Medicine discusses the need for health care institutions to pursue provider well-being as a core organizational strategy....

Article
Association Between Physician Burnout and Patient Safety, Professionalism, and Patient Satisfaction A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

The following study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, examines whether physician burnout is associated with an increased risk of patient safety incidents,...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
Returning to the Sacred Patient-Physician Relationship

In this blog post by epileptologist Virginia Thornley, she describes the importance of returning to the sacred traditional relationship between a patient and...

Opinion Piece/Short Communication
Developing Empathy Takes More Than You Know

In this blog post for the Journal of American College of Radiology, Andrea Borondy Kitts describes her experience and struggles as a recovering patient after...

Personal Stories
8 in 10 Doctors have Experienced a Cyber Attack in Practice

Physicians, overwhelmingly, are finding themselves the target of cyber attacks due to an increasingly connected and complex digitized health care system. Out of...

Article
The Next Step for OpenNotes Is OurNotes

To engage patients even more actively, researchers at UCLA and Harvard Medical School are exploring "OurNotes", a platform inviting patients to co-produce notes...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
The Relationship Between Professional Burnout and Quality and Safety in Health-Care: A Meta-Analysis

The following meta-analysis of 82 studies examines relationships between provider burnout and quality and safety of healthcare. A significant negative relationship...

Peer-Reviewed Literature