Quality & Errors

Project management tool to help the accreditation coordinator monitor compliance activities.

Project management tool to help the accreditation coordinator monitor compliance activities.

An article on how to take another facility’s innovation or quality improvement project and making it work in your facility.

A checklist to see if staff are using the checklists you give them

When visiting a hospital, surveyors use this worksheet to confirm an organization’s compliance with the QAPI CoPs. Use it to test your facility before surveyors arrive.

Run through this list to assess harm after a patient has fallen.

If it’s not documented, it’s not done. This article is on the importance of documentation in passing a survey.

Documentation doesn’t do you good if you can’t find the files when surveyors ask for it. This article is on the importance of organizing your documents, with advice on how to do so.

A non-comprehensive list of safety precautions to take before, during, and after surgery by the WHO.

Sometimes surgeons will perform part of a surgery and leave partway through to work on another patient. If this practice is done at your facility, use this checklist.