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- Agency for Heathcare Research and Quality
- AHRQ - Medical Errors & Patient Safety
- AHRQ - Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web
- AHRQ - Your Medicine: Play It Safe
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- CDC - Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings
- CDC - National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
- CDC - Preventing Falls Among Older Adults
- Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care
- Canadian Patient Safety Institute
- FDA - Consumer Health Information
- Infection: Don't Pass It On
- National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) - NHS
- National Institute of Health
- Quality Interagency Coordination (QuIC) Task Force
- American Medical Association
- HCPro, The Healthcare Compliance Company
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
- Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
- Joint Commission International Center Patient Safety
- The Leapfrog Group
- National Patient Safety Foundation
- Patient Safety Institute
- Bad Human Factors Designs
- FDA's Human Factors Program
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
- Human Factors International Subscribe to UI Design Newsletter
- Human Factors Principles for Medical Device Labeling
- Suggested Readings in Human-Computer Interaction, User Interface Development, & Human Factors
- The Joint Commission
- The Joint Commission's Patient Safety Goals
- The Joint Commission's Accrediting Info
- The Joint Commission's Annotated Resources - Sentinel Events
- The Joint Commission's Sentinel Event Statistics
- ECRI Database of Medical Device Safety Reports
- FDA's Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database - (MAUDE)
- FDA's MedWatch - Medical Products Reporting and Safety Information Program
- Free Medical Journals
- Diagnostic Code Descriptions (ICD9)
- JAMA
- The New England Journal of Medicine
- Medical Dictionary
- Handbook of Medical Informatics
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
- National Library of Medicine Gateway
Dr. Thibault's Medical Resources on the Internet - A collection of URLs appropriate to medicine.