1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit: A Focus on Communities 2004 Karen Adams, Ann C. Greiner, Janet M. Corrigan National Academies Press 
Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation 2005 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
AHRQ Medical Errors & Patient Safety links Page of links to Patient Safety Resources
AHRQ Quality Indicators This database produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provides measures of health care quality that use readily available hospital inpatient administrative data
AHRQ Research Relevant to Understanding the Impact of Working Conditions on Patient Safety AHRQ
Annual Health Check 2005 Healthcare Commission 
Building a Safer System: a National Integrated Strategy for Improving Patient Safety in Canadian Health Care National Steering Committee on Patient Safety 
Can You Minimize Health Care Costs By Improving Patient Safety: Teleconference Sessions 2002 AHRQ
Canadian Health Accreditation Report 2004 2005 Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation
Canadian Patient Safety Dictionary 2003 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Care in the ICU: Teaming Up to Improve Patient Quality 2002 National Coalition on Health Care
Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH)
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Clinical Governance Support Team Excellent resources from the UK NHS Modernization Agency. Includes many tips on how to introduce concepts of clinical quality and how to create and motivate a team approach to quality issues.
Closing the Quality Gap: a Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies: Volume 1 - Series Overview and Methodology 2004 Agency for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Closing the Quality Gap: a Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies: Volume 2: Diabetes Mellitus Care 2004 UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center Stanford University Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research
Closing the Quality Gap: a Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies: Volume 3: Hypertension Care 2005 UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center Stanford University Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research
Computing and Incident Reporting Site on understanding accidents and incidents involving complex, computer-based systems - maintained by Chris Johnson
Crossing the Quality Chasm: a New Health System for the 21st Century 2001 Committee on Quality of Health Care in America Institute of Medicine National Academies Press
Curing the System: Stories of Change in Chronic Illness Care 2002 National Coalition of Health Care
Delivery Programme To Reduce Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) Including MRSA UK Department of Health
Dialysis Surveillance Network (DSN)
Educational Needs Assessment for Improving Patient Safety: Results of a National Study of Physicians and Nurses 2002 Jonathan B. VanGeest, Deborah S. Cummins National Patient Safety Foundation
Effect of Health Care Working Conditions on Patient Safety AHRQ
Ensuring Quality Cancer Care 1999 Maria Hewitt and Joseph V. Simone National Academy Press
Essence of Care: Patient-focused Benchmarks for Clinical Governance 2003 Clinical Support Team NHS Modernization Agency
Evaluation of Nursing Best Practice Guidelines: Clinical Management, Quality Assurance and Referrals 2005 Nancy Edwards, Barbara Davies, Evangeline Danseco, Lucie Brousseau, Denyse Pharand, Jenny Ploeg, Viren Bharti Distributed by the Nursing Best Practice Research Unit. University of Ottawa Registered Nurses Association of Ontario 
FDA/CDER National Drug Code Directory (NDC)
First Workshop on Human Error and Clinical Systems (HECS'99)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Guidance for Development of Patient Safety Data Standards Relevant Links
Health Care Improvement Practices Registry - a database of health care improvement practices from Ontario organizations across multiple health care sectors
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
HealthGrades - The Healthcare Quality Experts Commercial US site grading healthcare organizations
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture 2004 Agency on Healthcare Quality and Research
Incident Reporting Systems in Medicine From the Nation Patient Safety Foundation
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
International Classification of Diseases-10th Revision-Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM)
Joint CDC/FDA: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
Joint VA/NASA Patient Safety Reporting System (PSRS)
Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses 2004 Anne Page Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses. Board on Health Care Services National Academies Press
Leadership by Example: Coordinating Government Roles in Improving Health Care Quality 2003 Janet M. Corrigan, Jill Eden, Barbara M. Smith Committee on Enhancing Federal Healthcare Quality Programs Institute of Medicine National Academies Press
Making Health Care Safer: a Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices Robert M. Wachter, Kaveh G. Shojania, Bradford W. Duncan, Kathryn M. McDonald, Amy J. Markowitz AHRQ
Measuring the Quality of Breast Cancer Care in Women: Evidence Report/Technology Assessment 105 Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research
Medical Errors: the Scope of the Problem: An Epidemic of Errors 2000 AHRQ
Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program: Maximizing Potential 2006 Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment and Performance Improvement Programs National Academies Press
Medication Errors Reporting (MER) Program (for practitioners)
National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP)
National Agenda for Action: Patients and Families in Patient Safety: Nothing About Me Without Me National Patient Safety Foundation
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) Reporting System
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)
National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS)
National Guideline Clearinghouse Collection of over 1000 Clinical Practice Guidelines.
National Health Care Quality Report 2003 Agency for Health Research Quality
National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS)
National Patient Safety Foundation International Resources
National Patient Safety Foundation
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides information on how to select, apply, and interpret quality measures
National Surveillance System for Health Care Workers (NaSH)
NCHS Public Health Data Standards Consortium
NHS Improvement Leader's Guides
NIH-funded: Medical Event Reporting System for Transfusion Medicine (MERS-TM)
Nursing Information and Data Set Evaluation Center (NIDSEC) - Nursing Codes
Patient Safety Resource Center by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Patient Safety, Medical Error and Tort Law: an International Comparison: Final Report 2006 Joan M. Gilmour Osgoode Hall Law School
Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care 2003 Board on Health Care Services. Institute of Medicine National Academies Press
Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series 2007 Philip Aspden, Julie Wolcott, J. Lyle Bootman, Linda R. Cronenwett, Editors Committee on Medication Errors National Academies Press
Pride, Prejudice and Pediatric Sedation: a Multispecialty Evaluation of the State of the Art: Report from a Dartmouth Summit on Pediatric Sedation 2001 George T. Blike, Joseph P. Cravero National Patient Safety Foundation
Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Care Quality 2003 Karen Adams and Janet M. Corrigan Committee on Identifying Priority Areas for Quality Improvement Institute of Medicine National Academies Press
Promises to Keep: Changing the Way We Provide Care at the End of Life 2000 National Coalition on Health Care
Q Review a quarterly newsletter Health Quality Council 
Quality Check Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations - a comprehensive guide to the nearly 16,000 Joint Commission-accredited health care organizations and programs throughout the United States
Quality First: Better Health Care for All Americans 1998 Presidents Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry
Quality Improvement Tools RAND
Quality Initiative: a Public Resource on Hospital Performance 2002 American Hospital Association
Quality of cardiac care in Ontario: EFFECT (Enhanced Feedback for Effective Cardiac Treatment) 2004 J. Tu, L. Donovan, D. Lee, D. Ko, P. Austin, J. Wang, A. Newman Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Quality Tools a clearinghouse for practical, ready-to-use tools for measuring and improving the quality of Americans’ health care
Reducing and Preventing Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs 2001 AHRQ
Reducing Medical Errors and Improving Patient Safety: Success Stories from the Front Lines of Medicine 2000 National Coalition on Health Care
Reference Guide for Learning from Incidents in Radiation Treatment 2006 David Cooke, Meina Dubetz, Rahim Heshmati, Sandra Iftody, Erin McKimmon, Jody Powers, Robert C. Lee, Peter Dunscombe Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research 
Setting the Agenda for Research on Cultural Competence in Health Care 2004 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Staffing for Safety: a Synthesis of the Evidence on Nurse Staffing and Patient Safety 2006 J. Ellis, A. Priest, M. MacPhee and A. Sanchez McCutcheon on behalf of Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and partners Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
Strategies for Leadership: an Invitation to Conversation: Quality of Care Workbook and Video Series
Strategies for Leadership: Hospital Executives and Their Role in Patient Safety American Hospital Association
Strategy to Implement an Integrated Risk Management Framework in Health Canada 2003 Health Canada
Tale of Two Stories: Contrasting Views of Patient Safety: Report From a Workshop on Assembling the Scientific Basis for Progress on Patient Safety 1998 Richard I. Cook, David D. Woods, Charlotte Miller National Patient Safety Foundation
To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System 2000 Linda T. Kohn, Janet M. Corrigan, and Molla S. Donaldson, Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
U.K. National Health Service Information Authority
U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
United States Pharmacopeia (USP)
Web M&M online journal and forum on patient safety and health care quality from AHRQ