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Patient Safety in Correctional Settings

In response to the need to address quality of healthcare in prisons and jails, a group of U.S. correctional health care experts came together at John Jay College in 2009 to develop a set of 60 correctional patient safety standards. "To our knowledge, this is the first published set of standards focusing on patient safety, drawn from the emerging literature on quality improvement in the community, but adapted to prison. We hope this website will provide:

An avenue for dissemination of the proposed standards;
An opportunity for the public to provide feedback to the developers regarding these standards;
An opportunity for correctional health care administrators to view these standards and consider their adoption – even in part – in their own systems;
A stimulus for further discussion about and attention to patient safety behind bars."

Healthcare 411

Healthcare 411 is a news series produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. AHRQ’s mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. Using the latest podcasting technology, these weekly audio and video programs feature AHRQ’s latest research findings as news and informational stories on current health care topics.

BioMedSearch

This is a site that contains all PubMed/MedLine publications, plus additional journals and a database of theses and dissertations. The thesis database is not available anywhere else for free. Given this, BioMedSearch it is more comprehensive than any other free biomedical search site.

Justice Atlas of Sentencing and Corrections

The Justice Atlas of Sentencing and Corrections is an online tool for mapping the residential distribution of people involved in the criminal justice system. It uses aggregated address data to map the flow of people being removed to prison, reentering communities from prison, and the standing population concentrations of people under parole or probation supervision.

THE Member Organization for Correctional Healthcare Professionals

RESOURCES for the Correctional Health Professional

Centers for Disease Control

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - MMWR

Health Resources and Services Administration

CDC Corrections

U.S. Department of Justice

National Institute of Corrections

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Federal Bureau of Prisons

National Institute of Justice

Office of Tribal Justice

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

National Institutes of Health

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Drug Abuse Warning Network

Federal Prison Industries

Unicor Inmate Transition Branch

Office of National Drug Control Policy

Institute for Criminal Justice Healthcare

National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC)

National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders

Society of Correctional Physicians

American Correctional Association

American Jail Association

American Probation and Parole Association (APPA)

Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators

National Juvenile Defender Center

National Juvenile Detention Association

National Correctional Industries Association

Australian Institute of Criminology

American Academy of Pediatrics

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

American Public Health Association

Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO)

Health Communications Materials Network

National Minority AIDS Council

Centerforce

Reentry Policy Council

Urban Institute

WHO Health in Prisons

Infectious Diseases in Corrections

Hepatitis Programs

Hepatitis C in Prisons

Criminal Justice Mental Health Consensus Project

Nursing Behind the Wall

The Correctional Nurse Educator