Safety topics A to Z
This section contains resources and tools on healthcare safety and best practices.
Select a topic from the list below:
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Back injury prevention
- Bundling - evidence-based practices
- Cell phones and EMC
- Clostridium difficile -
associated disease (CDAD) - CMS - Hospital associated conditions
- Computerized physician
order entry (CPOE) - Computers and electronics
in healthcare - Construction, ICRA,
risk assessment - Culture - patient safety
- DEHP
- Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
- Donations - equipment
- Emergency preparedness
- Energy - cleaner, renewable SPHERE
- Environmentally preferable
purchasing (EPP) - Environmental/Green & safety
products and contracted suppliers - Fall prevention
- Green corner - supplier, member
success stories - Green purchasing
- Greener, safer, products and Premier contracted suppliers
- Guidelines - infection prevention
and safety
- Hand hygiene
- Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)
- Injections for Patient Safety
- Influenza - pandemic
- Influenza - seasonal
- Latex allergy prevention
- Mercury pollution prevention
- Multidrug-resistant organisms, e.g., MRSA
- Needlestick prevention
- Occupational TB risks
- Patient safety
- Pediatrics
- Pressure ulcer prevention
- Pharmaceutical waste management
- PVC
-
Radiology and imaging safety - Recalls and product notifications
- Reuse of single-use devices
- Safer, green designs
- Safer, greener products and suppliers
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Safety tools
- Sharps safety brochure
- Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP)
- Sharps injury prevention
- SPHERE - Premier's energy initiative
- Tubing misconnections
- Unique device identification
(UDI) and bar coding -
Venous thromboembolism (VTE)