AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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Safety Target

•Device-related Complications (48)

•Diagnostic Errors (78)

•Identification Errors (37)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (300)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (26)

•Medication Safety (480)

•Medical Complications (154)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (31)

•Surgical Complications (168)

•Transfusion Complications (10)

•Psychological and Social Complications (42)

Origin/Sponsor

•Africa (4)

•Asia (39)

•Australia and New Zealand (57)

•Central and South America (5)

•Europe (400)

•North America (785)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (872)

•Active Errors (234)

•Latent Errors (49)

•Near Miss (33)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (256)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (32)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (452)

•Communication Improvement (308)

•Human Factors Engineering (120)

•Teamwork (90)

•Specialization of Care (89)

•Logistical Approaches (103)

•Culture of Safety (115)

•Technologic Approaches (227)

•Education and Training (222)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (4)

•Complementary and Alternative Medicine (1)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (877)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (1179)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (446)

•Patients (3)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (978)

•Psychiatric Facilities (7)

•Residential Facilities (53)

•Ambulatory Care (126)

•Outpatient Surgery (9)

•Patient Transport (16)

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Development of a core drug list towards improving prescribing education and reducing errors in the UK.

Baker E, Roberts AP, Wilde K, et al. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2011;71:190-198.

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Use of strategies from high-reliability organisations to the patient hand-off by resident physicians: practical implications.

Philibert I. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:261-266.

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Problems after discharge and understanding of communication with their primary care physicians (PCPs) among hospitalized seniors: a mixed methods study.

Arora VM, Prochaska ML, Farnan JM, et al. J Hosp Med. 2010;5:385-391.

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Transfers of patient care between house staff on internal medicine wards: a national survey.

Horwitz LI, Krumholz HM, Green ML, Huot SJ. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1173-1177.

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Medication errors with electronic prescribing (eP): two views of the same picture.

Savage I, Cornford T, Klecun E, Barber N, Clifford S, Franklin BD. BMC Health Serv Res. 2010;10:135.

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Safety of using a computerized rounding and sign-out system to reduce resident duty hours.

Van Eaton EG, McDonough K, Lober WB, Johnson EA, Pellegrini CA, Horvath KD. Acad Med. 2010;85:1189-1195.

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Pharmacists' interventions in prescribing errors at hospital discharge: an observational study in the context of an electronic prescribing system in a UK teaching hospital.

Abdel-Qader DH, Harper L, Cantrill JA, Tully MP. Drug Saf. 2010;33:1027-1044.

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Medication reconciliation performed by pharmacy technicians at the time of preoperative screening.

van den Bemt PM, van den Broek S, van Nunen AK, Harbers JB, Lenderink AW. Ann Pharmacother. 2009;43:868-874.

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Interruptions and multitasking in nursing care.

Kalisch BJ, Aebersold M. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:126-132.

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Wristbands as aids to reduce misidentification: an ethnographically guided task analysis.

Smith AF, Casey K, Wilson J, Fischbacher-Smith D. Int J Qual Health Care. 2011;23:590-599.

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Handoffs causing patient harm: a survey of medical and surgical house staff.

Kitch BT, Cooper JB, Zapol WM, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2008;34:563-570.

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The introduction of a surgical safety checklist in a tertiary referral obstetric centre.

Kearns RJ, Uppal V, Bonner J, Robertson J, Daniel M, McGrady EM. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:818-822.

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Impact of a computerized physician order entry system on compliance with prescription accuracy requirements.

Mir C, Gadri A, Zelger GL, Pichon R, Pannatier A. Pharm World Sci. 2009;31:596-602.

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The social dimensions of safety incident reporting in maternity care: the influence of working relationships and group processes.

Lindsay P, Sandall J, Humphrey C. Soc Sci Med. 2012;75:1793-1799.

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What are covering doctors told about their patients? Analysis of sign-out among internal medicine house staff.

Horwitz LI, Moin T, Krumholz HM, Wang L, Bradley EH. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:248-255.

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Incidence and root cause analysis of wrong-site pain management procedures: a multicenter study.

Cohen SP, Hayek SM, Datta S, et al. Anesthesiology. 2010;112:711-718.

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Contributing factors identified by hospital incident report narratives.

Nuckols TK, Bell DS, Paddock SM, Hilborne LH. Qual Saf Health Care. 2008;17:368-372.

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Medication errors: the impact of prescribing and transcribing errors on preventable harm in hospitalised patients.

van Doormaal JE, van den Bemt PM, Mol PG, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:22-27.

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Fall prevention in acute care hospitals: a randomized trial.

Dykes PC, Carroll DL, Hurley A, et al. JAMA. 2010;304:1912-1918.

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Adverse events detected by clinical surveillance on an obstetric service.

Forster AJ, Fung I, Caughey S, et al. Obstet Gynecol. 2006;108:1073-1083.

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