• Ten Thousand Hours to Patient Safety, Sooner or Later, Academic Medicine, February 2012 

• How Doctors Can Reduce Medical Errors, Lawsuits, By Kevin Pho, USA TODAY
How doctors can reduce medical errors, lawsuits By Kevin Pho

• Safety Research Found Lacking for Outpatient Visits
amednews.com, January 2012

• Revealing Their Medical Errors: Why Three Doctors Went Public
By Kevin B. O'Reilly, amednews.com, January 2012

• Report Finds Most Errors at Hospitals Go Unreported
By Robert Pear, January 6, 2012, The New York Times

• Learning about the Safety of Drugs - A Half-Century of Evolution
By Jerry Avorn, M.D., New England Journal of Medicine, December 8, 2011

• Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2011
This study conducted by the USDHHS, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, provides initial results that hospitals can use to compare their patient safety culture to other U.S. hospitals.

• Wrong-patient, wrong-site procedures persist despite safety protocol reported by the American Medical News on November 1, 2010
A new study found Joint Commission-required timeouts are skipped or rushed. Experts say a "zero tolerance" approach is needed to stop these tragic mistakes.

• Michigan Hospital Association Patient Safety Organization
The MHA Patient Safety Organization (PSO) is a not-for-profit (501c3) corporation that seeks to improve patient safety and quality for all Michigan residents. The MHA PSO collaborates with providers to implement evidence-based best practices that will improve patient safety and quality of care.

• NCSBN - Transition to Practice Initiatives
Description of NCSBN's Transition to Practice Model: This model is intended to be implemented with education and practice, but through regulation. This is an inclusive model, which would take place in all health care settings that hire newly graduated nurses and for all education levels of nurses. Patient safety, error reduction and retention of staff are just a few areas this model hopes to impact.

• Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
2008 Comparative Database Report provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

• MPRO - Patient Safety
MPRO assists Michigan providers in the hospital and nursing home settings to improve care processes. Initiatives are designed to address patient harm for which there is evidence on how to improve safety by improving processes and systems.

• Lung Cancer Screening: Low-Dose Spiral CT Scans 
Michigan Cancer Consortium Position Statement for Health Care Providers; April 2007

• Professionalism in Medicine: Results of a National Survey of Physicians, December 2007 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine
Results of this survey conclude that physicians agree with standards of professional behavior promulgated by professional societies. Reported behavior, however, did not always conform to those norms. Read the entire document for all the details.

• VA National Center for Patient Safety
The NCPS was established in 1999 to develop and nurture a culture of safety throughout the Veterans Health Administration. Our goal is the nationwide reduction and prevention of inadvertent harm to patients as a result of their care.

• Physician Practice Patient Safety Assessment
The PPPSA is an interactive, self-assessment tool for evaluating medication safety, patient handoffs and transitions, surgery and invasive procedures, personnel qualifications and competency, practice management and culture, patient education and communication.

• American Society of Anesthesiologists - Patient Safety Corner
During the last century the ASA membership has worked to improve the anesthesia experience for patients and is considered one of the pioneers in the field of patient safety in medicine.

• Josie King Story
Compelling story about a family that lost their 18 month old daughter due to medical and nursing errors. This site provides a wealth of information for practitioners and consumers alike.

• Institute for Safe Medication Practices
A non-profit organization educating the healthcare community and consumers about safe medication practices.

• Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
This website is a place to learn and share ideas about education strategies that promote quality and safety competency development in nursing.

• The Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety
The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Resources (JCR) established the Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety in March 2005. The Center is a natural extension of the well-established patient safety activities for which the Joint Commission and JCR are recognized. The Center leverages the expertise, resources and knowledge from both the Joint Commission and JCR.

• Minnesota Alliance on Patient Safety
The Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety (MAPS) is a partnership among the Minnesota Hospital Association, Minnesota Medical Association, Minnesota Department of Health and more than 50 other public-private health care organizations working together to improve patient safety.

• MHA - Keystone Center for Patient Safety & Quality
Read about progress made by the Michigan Hospital Association Keystone Center for Patient Safety & Quality.

• Study of the State of Patient Safety in Nebraska Pharmacies
The comprehensive report, "State of Patient Safety in Nebraska Pharmacy, December 2008" may be downloaded from the Report section of their website.

• Optimizing Patient Safety & Reducing Medication Errors in Oregon
In response to the Oregon Board of Pharmacy's interest in promoting an awareness of and ultimately a decrease in medication errors, the Board convened its Medication Error Reduction Patient Safety Research Council. Be sure to read the 23-point Oregon Board of Pharmacy Position Statement on this subject.

• Association of periOperative Registered Nurses - Patient Safety First
Safe patient care stems from the commitment of the health care professional to expanding knowledge and embracing evidence-based practice. AORN is committed to identifying, collecting, and developing resources to further that commitment.

• Michigan Health and Safety Coalition
A collaborative quality improvement effort focused on improving patient safety in Michigan. MH&SC was first organized in 2000, following the release of the Institute of Medicine report titled, "To Err is Human".

• National Patient Safety Foundation
The National Patient Safety Foundation provides an array of resources to support healthcare professionals in their critical role in creating and maintaining a safe healthcare environment.