Making Anesthesia Safer.
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Organization (ANPSO) is a federally-listed Patient Safety Organization created to improve patient safety and healthcare quality.
ANPSO collects and analyzes data voluntarily reported to help improve patient safety and healthcare quality. By emphasizing a culture of safety, ANPSO creates a safe space for providers to communicate and collaborate openly by receiving certain legal protections.
ANPSO is dedicated to improving patient safety by:
Providing protections to member providers
Reporting events, near-miss events, and complications
Analysis of events, trends, and patterns
Submitting opportunities to learn and reduce safety events
Creating a collaborative learning environment
Supporting a just culture and learning system
What does ANPSO do?
ANPSO will engage in:
Activities to improve patient safety and the quality of health care delivery.
Collection and analysis of patient safety work product.
Development and dissemination of information aimed at improving patient safety.
Utilization of patient safety work product to encourage a culture of safety and to provide feedback in a learning system to assist toward minimizing patient risk.
Other activities related to the operation of a patient safety evaluation system and to provide feedback to participants in a patient safety evaluation system.
Our Mission
The mission of ANPSO is to improve the safety and quality of anesthesia and healthcare services.
What is a Patient Safety Organization?
The Patient Safety Organization (PSO) program was developed in response to the Institute of Medicine 1999 report, To Err is Human. This lead initiatives to improve quality and safety by reducing the incidence of adverse events affecting patients.
The purpose of the program is to promote a learning environment and culture of safety by providing privilege and confidentiality protections for providers who work with a PSO.
The primary activity of a PSO is to work with healthcare providers in a variety of settings where care is provided and conduct patient safety activities.
A PSO does this by assisting providers with developing patient safety evaluation systems, through which their patient safety work product can be analyzed and shared within their organizations and with the PSO under the confidentiality and privilege protections of the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005.
How does a PSO help you?
Provider members with written agreements in place with ANPSO receive privileges and confidentiality protections, under federal laws, to encourage reporting of patient safety information and participation in learning systems to reduce adverse patient outcomes.
Protected information: Certain information, defined as Patient Safety Work Product, is privileged and confidential when a provider member works with a PSO. These protections apply in all U.S. states and reach across state lines which is largely beneficial in a multi-state practice.
Reporting safety events: Anyone can report quality and patient safety information to ANPSO confidentially. Provider members with a signed agreement in place have protections for communication without fear of litigation. We provide a non-punitive environment to encourage a reporting culture. A reporting culture is critical to the success of a culture of safety and a high reliability organization.
Analysis of events: ANPSO workforce experts collect and analyze data to identify trends and patterns across affiliated facilities allowing for the potential of process improvement and reduction of adverse events. Rare and serious events may also be detected sooner through ongoing data analysis. ANPSO workforce assists member providers and affiliated facilities with investigations of single events in a protected and confidential manner.
Shared learning opportunities: Through event review and analysis, ANPSO gains insight into underlying causes of patient safety events. Reporting of de-identified events reviewed by the Medical Advisory Committee, Safety Alerts, and the Safety Report Newsletter are shared with ANPSO members as part of the feedback loop. Shared information among members encourages a learning system and engaging by asking, “could this happen at your facility?”
Education and training: Provider members are encouraged to use lessons learned from de-identified event reports, safety alerts, and other feedback to prevent patient safety events. ANPSO offers education and training on a variety of patient safety topics based on identified needs from event reports and current patient safety topics through the training tab on the website.
Assistance with improvement efforts: ANPSO assists provider members with developing effective approaches to improving patient safety and quality, such as evaluating culture of safety, conducting root cause analyses, and developing strong action plans.
Learn More
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
For more information about working with a PSO, download the AHRQ brochure: Click Here
