Healthcare Alliance Safety Partnership (HASP) - Healthcare Alliance Safety Partnership

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Healthcare Alliance Safety Partnership (HASP) is a groundbreaking, innovative nurse reporting project currently being conducted in several institutions in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. HASP provides an alternative reporting and review process for nurses wishing to self-report errors and has been approved by the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas. HASP adapts the aviation industry’s successful event reporting system – Aviation Safety Action Program – to healthcare to understand and address systems and human performance factors that influence medical errors. HASP identifies areas for individual and organizational improvement and recommends interventions designed to increase the safety of patient care in Texas. HASP includes eligibility exclusion criteria to ensure that the public is protected with respect to the delivery and efficacy of nursing care.

The purpose of this website is to provide information about HASP and share best practices identified through the course of this project. HASP is a research project of the Institute for Healthcare Excellence and The University of Texas Center of Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (1PO1HS1154401).