Research Guides: Nursing Resources: Quality Care and Patient Safety

Quality Care Resources

Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Using Medicare data, this project provides an atlas on the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system in the United States. Data can be found by: region, hospital, and topic.
Health.gov: Healthcare quality training Resources about health care quality and patient safety from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade "The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is a composite score made up of up to 28 national performance measures of patient safety measures that indicate how well hospitals protect patients from preventable errors, injuries and infections."
Joint Commission: Patient Safety Includes documents, podcasts, news, and more.

AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window Features leading medical content, plus multimedia, self-assessment, algorithms, case studies, and more.