2008 QHN OPEN HOUSE PROCEEDINGS:
Patient Safety Indicators Outside the Acute Care Sector

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (Toronto Rehab), Lyndhurst Centre, Toronto, Ontario.

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The State of the Big Dot: Performance Measures in Canada
By Indra Pulcins, Director, Health Indicators, Canadian Institute for Health Information
http://www.qhn.ca/events/OH_Patientsafety_CIHI.ppt

Quality & Safety Indicators
By Paula Raggiunti, Acting Director, Quality & Patient Safety, Bridgepoint Health
http://www.qhn.ca/events/OH_Patientsafety_Bridgepoint.ppt

The Nature and Burden of Safety Problems Among Home Care Clients
By Diane Doran, Lawrence S. Bloomberg, Professor in Patient Safety, Lawrence S.
Bloomberg, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.
(We are not able to share this presentation with you at this time, however, please see
an PDF abstract below which relates to this work.)

Diane Doran et al. The Nature and Burden of Safety Problems Among Canadian Home
Care Clients: Evidence. From the RAI-HC Reporting System

http://www.qhn.ca/events/OH_Patientsafety_UofT.pdf

Patient Safety at Whitby Mental Health Centre
By Doris Doidge, Former Director of Quality and Janice Dusek, CNO, VP Professional
Practice & Strategic Development, Whitby Mental Health Centre
http://www.qhn.ca/events/OH_Patientsafety_Whitby.ppt

Safe or Unsafe? Are we improving? Developing a Patient Safety Scorecard
By Elaine Aimone, Director, Safety Quality and Risk Management, Toronto Rehab Institute
http://www.qhn.ca/events/OH_Patientsafety_Torontorehab.ppt

QHN Member Recommended Resources

Tools

Quality and Safety Framework
By Bridgepoint Health
http://www.qhn.ca/events/OH_Patientsafety_Bridgepoint_qualityandsafetyframework.ppt

Corporate Strategy Map
By Bridgepoint Health
http://www.qhn.ca/events/OH_Patientsafety_Bridgepoint_Corporatestrategymap.ppt

Safety Scorecard
By Toronto Rehab Institute
http://www.qhn.ca/events/OH_Torontorehabsafetyscorecard.pdf

Literature

Canadian Institute for Health Information, Health Indicators 2008 (Ottawa: CIHI, 2008).
http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/products/HealthIndicators2008_ENGweb.pdf

Langley GL, Nolan KM, Nolan TW, Norman CL, Provost LP. The Improvement Guide:
A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance. San Francisco, California,
USA: Jossey-Bass Publishers; 1996.

http://www.ihi.org

G. Ross Baker, Peter G. Norton, Virginia Flintoft, Régis Blais, Adalsteinn Brown, Jafna Cox,
Ed Etchells, William A. Ghali, Philip Hébert, Sumit R. Majumdar, Maeve O'Beirne, Luz
Palacios-Derflingher, Robert J. Reid, Sam Sheps, and Robyn Tamblyn. The Canadian
Adverse Events Study: the incidence of adverse events among hospital patients in Canada.
Can. Med. Assoc. J., May 2004; 170: 1678 - 1686.

http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/170/11/1678