APA's Committee on Patient Safety has created a new guide for psychiatrists
practicing in clinical and hospital settings. SAFE MD Practical
Applications and Approaches to Safe Psychiatric Practice can be accessed
at<http://psych.org/safemd>
and printed out at no cost. Each of the eight chapters provides examples of
unsafe care along with discussions of what went wrong and how to prevent
mistakes. The guide emphasizes applications and approaches to safe psychiatric
practice in six categories: suicide, aggression, falls, elopement, medical
comorbidity, and drug/medication errors. ▪