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Safe Practices for Better Healthcare: A Consensus Report

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Detailed Description

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Publication Date: 2003

Author: The National Quality Forum

Type: Hardcopy - if you would like to order a hard copy of the NQF Report, please contact the National Quality Forum.

Description:
This report details 30 healthcare safe practices that should be universally utilized in applicable clinical care settings to reduce the risk of harm to patients. The 30 priority safe practices have been culled from an original pool of more than 220 candidate practices, based on each practice's specificity, effectiveness, potential benefit, generalizability, and readiness for implementation. This set of safe practices has been carefully reviewed and endorsed by a diverse group of stakeholders pursuant to the National Quality Forum`s (NQF's) formal Consensus Development Process and have the special status of "voluntary consensus standards." By achieving consensus on this set of evidence-based, high-priority safe practices, NQF seeks to stimulate their universal implementation in applicable healthcare settings and, in turn, achieve substantial improvements in patient safety.
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