Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality

Your ASCLS Patient Safety Committee is proud to announce a new educational and resource benefit for our members. We have enhanced our Patient Safety webpages! The new online Patient Safety information provides critical patient safety information that directly relates to Laboratory professionals and Laboratory Medicine. The new structure of the Patient Safety webpages strives to consolidate all information so it's easy to find and accessible with one click!

We'd love to have you visit our new pages and let us know what you think!
If you have suggestions for new Patient Safety content or resources drop us a note!

Patient Safety Home Page -

• Patient Safety in Laboratory Medicine Matters https://www.ascls.org/patient-safety-in-laboratory-medicine-matters  (ASCLS home page -->Advocacy-Issues (drop down) -->Patient Safety )

Patient Safety Center – additional content and resources quick links on the Patient Safety Home Page (right column)

• Patient Safety Resources https://www.ascls.org/patient-safety-resources  (includes Patient Safety related websites and links; Patient Safety Tips Brochures for Patients and Providers; resources for Patient Safety Improvement & Indicators)
• What Is Patient Safety? https://www.ascls.org/what-patient-safety
• Do No Harm: Diagnostic Errors and the Laboratory https://www.ascls.org/do-no-harm-diagnostic-errors-laboratory
• Patient Safety Committee https://www.ascls.org/patient-safety-committee
• Patient Safety Advocacy https://www.ascls.org/patient-safety-advocacy 
• Patient Safety and Clinical Laboratory Science Position Paper https://www.ascls.org/patient-safety-and-clinical-laboratory-science-position-paper 
• Patient Safety & Healthcare Quality Community Quick Link https://connect.ascls.org/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=25c30ae5-e625-4372-b358-f9109552e1a8
  • Access to timely Patient Safety blogs and discussions
  • Two library documents that include cross-walk links to all the Patient Safety resources and information found on the main ASCLS site listed above
    • Patient Safety Tips (Educational Brochures) for Patients and Providers & Additional Resources
    • Patient Safety Center Resources & Quick References (Cross-Walk to ASCLS Patient Safety Pages

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Lezlee Koch, ASCLS Patient Safety Committee
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Lezlee and Stacy,

It is really great to see all this content available on the ASCLS Website. I particularly liked the Patient Safety indicators, which should be included in all laboratory's quality improvement plant.

I would love to see if our members would help contribute benchmarks for some of these indicators.  

Thank-you for all the great work this committee is doing!

Deb Rodahl
ASCLS Past-President

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Deb Rodahl, MLS
Vice President Operations
St. Joseph's Hospital
St. Paul, MN
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