This IHI White Paper describes a framework to guide health care organizations in their efforts to provide safe, equitable, person-centered telemedicine. The framework includes six elements to consider: access, privacy, diagnostic accuracy, communication, psychological and emotional safety, and human factors and system design.

The white paper, Framework for Effective Board Governance of Health System Quality, includes a Framework for Governance of Health System Quality, a Governance of Quality Assessment tool, and three Support Guides.​ These resources strive to reduce variation in and clarify trustee responsibilities for quality oversight, and also provide practical tools for trustees and the health system leaders who support them to govern quality in a way that will deliver better care to patients and communities.​

In 2017, the LLI collaborated with NORC at the University of Chicago to conduct a national survey of the general public's experience of harm in health care in the US. The resulting report, Americans' Experiences with Medical Errors and Views on Patient Safety, provides a detailed report of the survey findings, including that 21 percent of adults reported having personally experienced a medical error. 

ACHE and the IHI Lucian Leape Institute collaborated with leaders of progressive health care organizations and globally renowned experts in leadership, safety, and culture to develop this resource, Leading a Culture of Safety: A Blueprint for Success. Whether an organization is just beginning the journey to a culture of safety or is working to sustain its safe culture, this resource can serve as a useful guide to direct efforts and evaluate an organization’s success along the journey to zero harm.

Shining a Light: Safer Health Care Through Transparency makes the case that true transparency will result in improved outcomes, fewer medical errors, more satisfied patients, and lowered costs of care. This report offers recommendations for greater transparency between clinicians and patients, among clinicians within an organization, between organizations, and between organizations and the public.

The report, Safety Is Personal: Partnering with Patients and Families for the Safest Care, is a call to action for health leaders, clinicians, and policy makers to take the necessary steps to ensure patient and family engagement at all levels of health care.

The report, Through the Eyes of the Workforce: Creating Joy, Meaning, and Safer Health Care, details how workplace safety is inextricably linked to patient safety, highlighting common vulnerabilities in health care organizations, the costs of inaction, attributes of a healthy and safe workplace, and recommendations for actions.

Too often, care integration — the planned, thoughtful design of the care process for the benefit and protection of the patient — is lacking. This report, Order from Chaos: Accelerating Care Integration, addresses the issue of care integration with the aim of outlining the major barriers to effective integration and providing a framework for further consideration and action among stakeholders.​

Unmet Needs: Teaching Physicians to Provide Safe Patient Care, the culmination of three Lucian Leape Institute roundtable discussions, makes key recommendations for reforming medical education in order to improve patient safety. 

Risks to Patient Safety When Medical Errors Are Criminalized (March 30, 2023)

RaDonda Vaught Sentencing (May 13, 2022)

Salzburg Statement on Moving Measurement into Action
In September 2019, the IHI Lucian Leape Institute, in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminars, led an expert panel's work on developing global principles for measuring patient safety which resulted in eight recommendations for standard methods of measuring, understanding, and improving the safety of patients across the care continuum.

Transforming Concepts in Patient Safety: A Progress Report 
Gandhi TK, Kaplan GS, Leape L, et al. Transforming concepts in patient safety: a progress report. BMJ Quality & Safety. Published Online First: July 17, 2018. 
In this paper, IHI Lucian Leape Institute members assess progress and ongoing challenges in five areas of health care they had previously cited as critical to improving patient safety.

Beyond the Front Lines: Why Greater Openness Am​ong Clinicians Is Needed to Drive Improvement in Patient Safety 
Gandhi T. Beyond the front lines: Why greater openness among clinicians is needed to drive improvement in patient safety. PSQH Magazine. 2015 November/December. 
Drawing from the NPSF Lucian Leape Institute report on transparency, this article argues for greater transparency among clinicians, to facilitate learning and sharing best practices.

The ‘Must Do’ List: Certain Patient Safety Rules Should not Be Elective 
Wachter R. The ‘Must Do’ List: Certain patient safety rules should not be elective. Health Affairs Blog. August 20, 2015. 
Written on behalf of the NPSF Lucian Leape Institute members, this article proposes criteria for “must do” practices and argues that two practices — hand hygiene and influenza vaccination for health care workers — should currently qualify.

Improved Patient Safety with Value-Based Payment Models 
Corrigan J, Wakeam E, Gandhi TK, and Leape LL. Improved patient safety with value-based payment models. Healthcare Financial Management Magazine. August 1, 2015. 
For health systems in the process of transitioning to value-based payment programs, improving patient safety can be key to financial survival.

You Can't Understand Something You Hide: Transparency as a Path to Improve Patient Safety 
Wachter R, Kaplan G, Gandhi T, Leape L. You can't understand something you hide: Transparency as a path to improve patient safety. Health Affairs Blog. June 22, 2015. 
Evidence suggests that greater transparency can boost patient safety by promoting accountability, driving improvement in care, promoting trust, and facilitating patient choice.

Empowering Patients as Partners in Health Care 
Edgman-Levitan S, Gandhi T. Empowering patients as partners in health care. Health Affairs Blog. July 24, 2014. 
Evidence is mounting in support of patient engagement as a vital component of safe health care, but that is often easier said than done.

Shared Decision Making — The Pinnacle of Patient-Centered Care 
Barry MJ, Edgman-Levitan S. Shared decision making — Pinnacle of patient-centered care. N Engl J Med. 2012;366(9):780-781. 
In this perspective piece, the authors assert there is a critical need in health care to educate patients about the essential role they play in decision making and give them effective tools to help them understand their options and the consequences of their decisions.

Transforming healthcare: A safety imperative 
Leape L, Berwick D, Clancy C, Conway J, Gluck P, Guest J, Lawrence D, Morath J, O’Leary D, O’Neill P, Pinakiewicz D, Isaac T, for the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation. Transforming healthcare: A safety imperative. Quality and Safety in Health Care. 2009;18:424-428. 
This paper outlined measures deemed by the Institute members to be crucial to reforming and improving the safety of the health care system. It was featured in Quality and Safety in Health Care, a British Medical Journal publication, as the Editor’s Choice.