Enhancing Working Conditions and Patient Safety: Best Practices Conference
October 17-18, 2000, Pittsburgh, PA, David Lawrence Convention Center
Please join us to discuss practical approaches to simultaneously improving the
quality of patient care and working conditions for healthcare workers.
Conference participants will share best practices, describing both the difficulties encountered and practical examples of success that can be replicated by others.
What Are Best Practices?
Best practices are programs, policies, or procedures that reduce illness and injuries and/or improve well-being among patients as well as among health
care workers. Best practices encourage health care workers and organizations
to value safety through attention to organization of work and the physical environment, by encouraging near-miss and error reporting, and by systematically evaluating program effectiveness.
Examples include:
- Reorganization of staffing schedules to reduce worker fatigue and error rates.
- Projects to reduce back injuries among health care workers and fall incidents among patients
- Programs that reduce both nosocomial and occupational infectious disease transmission.
- Identification of programs that incorporate frontline worker input into both occupational health and safety and patient safety initiative.
Conference Format
This will be a working meeting, with common themes concerning organizational culture and safety presented as plenary topics, and working group sessions organized by focus interest areas. Participants will provide information about interventions that impact both health care worker working conditions and the quality of patient care, and that have been systematically evaluated by their institutions. Emphasis will be on sharing challenges, pitfalls, and solutions.
Programs should be potentially adaptable to other sites.
Audience
- Health care organizations.
- Management, frontline workers and their representatives.
- Researchers from government and academia, accrediting
bodies, insurance systems, and quality measurement organizations.
Sponsoring Agencies
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH/CDC).
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
- Veteran's Health Administration (VHA).
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
- National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID/CDC).
Registration and Additional Information Conference announcements, including registration information, will be mailed in late August. The conference announcement and online registration will also be available on the QuIC site online. For more conference information, please send an E-mail to workqual@ahrq.gov or call Eileen Hogan, AHRQ, at (301) 594-1704.
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