Topic Resources

IATROGENESIS

Government Information Agencies

American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/

American Nurses Association http://www.nursingworld.org/

Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Home Page: http://www.cdc.gov/
Publications, Software, and other Products:http://www.cdc.gov:80/publications.htm
Guidelines for preventing health-care-associated pneumonia, 2003. (March 26, 2004). Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. Retrieved October 11, 2004 from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5303a1.htm

Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Patient Safety www.patientsafety.gov

National Guideline Clearinghouse/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. http://www.guideline.gov/

National Institutes of health http://www.nih.gov/

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Home Page: http://www.ahrq.gov
Medical errors and patient safety. Retrieved October 9, 2004 from http://www.ahcpr.gov/qual/errorsix.htm

The American Iatrogenic Association www.iatrogenic.org

The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation http://www.gasnet.org/societies/apsf/

The Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC) Home Page: www.quic.gov Report of the QuIC to the President. (February 2000). Doing what counts for patient safety: Federal actions to reduce medical errors and their impact:
http://www.quic.gov/report/toc.htm
Understanding medical errors: http://www.quic.gov/report/mederr4.htm#adverse

United States Department of Health and Human Services: Aging: http://www.hhs.gov/aging/index.shtml

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Safety Alerts http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/safety.html


Last updated - January 2005