Patient Safety

The Patient Safety Theme comprises the following six primary topics/objectives designed to address areas of patient harm for which there is evidence of how to improve safety by improving health care processes and systems:

Reducing rates of health care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus (MRSA) infections;
Reducing rates of pressure ulcers in nursing homes and hospitals;
Reducing rates of use of physical restraints in nursing homes;
Improving inpatient surgical safety and heart failure treatment in hospitals
Improving drug safety; and
Providing quality improvement technical assistance to nursing homes in need.

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