Patient Safety

Patient Safety

In March 2001, the Academy introduced the Patient Safety Bulletins to increase patient safety and to inform ophthalmologists of systematic practices that can prevent errors from occuring.

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Minimizing Medication Errors: Communication about Drug Orders

This bulletin defines the problem and identifies contributing factors and provides suggestions for preventing medication errors and a sample policy on medication event reporting and analysis.
Date: March 2005
Source: AAO, American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses, and American Association of Eye and Ear Hospitals
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Eliminating Wrong Site Surgery

This bulletin identifies the problem and contributing factors, and suggests ideas for preventing wrong-site surgery, including the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations recommendations.
Date: March 2005
Source: AAO, American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses, and American Association of Eye and Ear Hospitals
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Minimizing Wrong IOL Placement

This bulletin defines the problem, identifies contributing factors and provides ideas for minimizing error with a multiple IOL verification sample protocol.
Date: January 2005
Source: AAO, American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses, and American Association of Eye and Ear Hospitals
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Patient Pain Assessment and Management

This bulletin describes the standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations for pain assessment and management, and provides suggestions on how patients can be assessed appropriately for pain.
Date: April 2001
Source: AAO, American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses, and American Association of Eye and Ear Hospitals
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