Adopting National Quality Forum medication safe practices: Progress and barriers to hospital implementation.

Background: To reduce medical errors, the National Quality Forum (NQF) developed consensus-based guidelines of 30 safe practices recommended for all hospitals

Objective: To determine the hospital characteristics and barriers that influence the rates of adoption of these practices.

Design: Retrospective review of annual self-assessment surveys from 2003 to 2004. Medication and culture of safety questions from the survey were mapped to the relevant NQF safe practices.

A statewide voluntary patient safety initiative: the Georgia experiene.

Background: The Partnership for Health and Accountability (PHA), a voluntary quality improvement and patient safety program, has focused on comprehensive evaluation and feedback. Shared reporting of processes and outcomes is the vehicle for internal quality improvement. PHA provides access to quality and safety tools and benchmarking resources for a diverse group of hospitals, including rural and critical accessfacilities.

Facilitators and barriers to 10 National Quality Forum safe practices.

The objective of this study was to identify facilitators and barriers to the implementation of 10 National Quality Forum (NQF) medication processes and the culture of safety practices in Georgia hospitals. In-depth interviews with hospital administrators were conducted to identify facilitators and barriers to the implementation of programs that support the NQF safe practices. Hospitals identified significant as well as other key factors that resulted in the adoption and/or nonadoption of medication and culture of safety practices.