A voluntary, confidential, non-punitive program available to all VA employees for the reporting of events and concerns related to patient safety.

Conference home page for the patient safety / errors in health care conference series presented by the National Patient Safety Foundation, Annenberg Center for Health Sciences, and other medical and health care organizations, government agencies, and corporations.

Provides a free, convenient and reliable way to keep friends and family updated on the condition of a hospitalized loved one.

Provides consulting services and information resources to help hospitals and health sytems improve clinical effectiveness and operational performance.

Provides multimedia, interactive, informational programs for the healthcare industry; services enhance patient safety, improve clinical care, and reduce risk exposure.

Offers a variety of wireless monitoring systems to assist healthcare organizations improve patient safety, prevent falls, and reduce reliance upon restraints; site includes training and education resources.

Promotes improvements in the safety of health care by giving consumers data to make more informed hospital choices. Includes hospital survey results, patient safety research, and links to related sites.

Patient Safety: medical error, medication error, medical equipment failure, root cause analysis, human factors, usability, physician error, pharmacy error, nursing error, iatrogenesis, failure mode analysis

VIPC&S supports systematic efforts to continuously improve quality of care and patient safety.

Provides information to educate patients and consumers on the health care process, including links to research and support resources.

Provides information on misdiagnosis of more than 1200 diseases and 300 symptoms; includes data on risk factors and links to additional resources.