ESRD Patient Safety Best Practices

The Keeping Kidney Patient Safe web site is a vehicle to collect and disseminate best practices to improve ESRD patient safety at dialysis facilities across the country. As nephrology professionals continue to contribute their patient safety best practices via the Share Your Safety Practices page, the collection of best practices on this page will continue to evolve. Keeping Kidney Patients Safe aims to provide a frequently updated and evolving resource for improving ESRD patient safety in dialysis centers. Help improve ESRD patient safety by taking a moment to fill out the Share Your Safety Practices form. A RPA representative will follow up with you for more information before adding your best practices to the Keeping Kidney Patients Safe web site.

The best practices template outlines the information needed about your best practice.

Source	Category
St. Luke's Nephrology Associates	Vascular Access Safety
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Dialysis Program	Culture of Safety
Kidney Consultants of Louisiana	Full spectrum patient safety project (see attachments)
Satellite Dialysis of Sunnyvale	Vascular access safety and preventing patient falls
Branson Nephrology, MO	Adherence to Procedures; medication omission or errors
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles, CA	Patient Falls
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles, CA	Adherence to Procedures
Elkins Dialysis Unit, WV	Adherence to Procedures
DaVita, CA	Adherence to Procedures
UPMC Shadyside, PA	Adherence to Procedures (see attachments)
Cleveland Clinic, OH	Venous Needle Dislodgment
Michigan Dialysis Services, MI	Patient Falls
Saint Medical Center Dialysis, MA	Incorrect Dialyzer or Dialyzing Solution, Patient Falls, Hand Hygiene
FMC North Suburban Dialysis Center, MA	Hand Hygiene
IDF Arundel Center, MD	Patient Falls
UVA Amherst Dialysis, VA	Hand hygiene, Patient Falls, Adherence to Procedures
The Centers For Dialysis Care, OH	Adherence to Procedures
Wheeling Renal Care, WV	Patient Falls
Fresenius Medical Care, ME	Patient Falls
University of Virginia Renal Services, VA	Hand Hygiene
Nephrophiles, LLC, NM	Medication omissions or errors
UVA AltaVista Dialysis Center, VA	Patient Falls