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Webinar schedule

• Clean Care is Safer Care Webinar Schedule 2011

Multimedia

• Clean Care is Safer Care: Promotional video | Webinar archives | Training tools
• Patients for Patient Safety: Advocacy
• Patient Safety Research Online Course: English | French
• Pulse Oximetry: Training Video
• Surgical Safety Checklist Instructional Video
• Learning from Error - workshop materials - Workshop materials and videos to learn from errors

A - Z index of WHO Patient Safety programmes and projects

• African Partnerships for Patient Safety
  A bidirectional initiative involving hospitals in Africa and Europe
• Checklists
  Tools to help ensure consistency and completeness in carrying out complex clinical tasks

• WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
  To detect a potential incidents in surgery before they leads to harm
• Safe childbirth checklist
  A checklist to be completed at critical phases surrounding childbirth
• Trauma care checklist
  A checklist that includes components of injury assessment and initial management steps for the care of trauma patients
• Pulse oximetry
  Projects for technology & medical devices

• Clean Care is Safer Care
  Global campaign to improve hand hygiene among health-care workers
• Curriculum Guide
  To encourage and facilitate the teaching of patient safety topics to students of health care professions
• High 5s
  International collaboration for standardizing patient safety practices
• International Classification for Patient Safety (ICPS)
  The conceptual framework for classification on patient safety
• Patients For Patient Safety
  Global network to empower patients for improving the quality and safety of health-care
• Research
  Facilitates the spread and use of research findings to inform safer health care in all WHO Member States.

• Bloodstream infections (BSI)
  Implementation research around a startlingly simple method to combat BSI
• Building leaders for change
  Skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to conduct research and improve patient safety
• Global patient safety research priorities
  The global agenda for patient safety research
• Methods & measures in primary care research
  Review of the literature
• Methodological guide for data-poor hospitals
  A guide to help measure and tackle patient harm at health-care facility level
• Human Factors
  Literature review and compendium of tools
• Patient Safety Research Small Grants
  Seed funding programme to stimulate research on patient safety priority areas

• Reporting and learning for patient safety
  Learning from failure for safer future action
• Technology for improving patient safety
  Projects for technology & medical devices
• Radiotherapy Risk Profile
  pdf, 686kb
  Technical manual