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•Device-related Complications (230)

•Diagnostic Errors (229)

•Identification Errors (167)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (506)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (105)

•Medication Safety (1438)

•Medical Complications (519)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (117)

•Surgical Complications (803)

•Transfusion Complications (26)

•Psychological and Social Complications (162)

Origin/Sponsor

•Africa (7)

•Asia (59)

•Australia and New Zealand (116)

•Central and South America (11)

•Europe (553)

•North America (4025)

Resource Types

•Clinical Guideline (10)

•Journal Article (3594)

•Legislation/Regulation (63)

•Meeting/Conference (36)

•Newsletter/Journal (13)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (448)

•Press Release/Announcement (30)

•Special or Theme Issue (78)

•Tools/Toolkit (66)

•Web Resource (127)

•Grant (10)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (1467)

•Active Errors (722)

•Latent Errors (284)

•Near Miss (81)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (1103)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (402)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (1368)

•Communication Improvement (1098)

•Human Factors Engineering (691)

•Teamwork (402)

•Specialization of Care (288)

•Logistical Approaches (325)

•Culture of Safety (543)

•Technologic Approaches (1058)

•Education and Training (893)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (12)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (3682)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (3815)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (1858)

•Patients (363)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (2991)

•Psychiatric Facilities (13)

•Residential Facilities (89)

•Ambulatory Care (436)

•Outpatient Surgery (60)

•Patient Transport (34)

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REVIEW

Improving safety in the operating room: a systematic literature review of retained surgical sponges.

Wan W, Le T, Riskin L, Macario A. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2009;22:207-214.

REVIEW

Prevention of 3 "never events" in the operating room: fires, gossypiboma, and wrong-site surgery.

Zahiri HR, Stromberg J, Skupsky H, et al. Surg Innov. 2011;18:55-60.

STUDY

Surgical case listing accuracy: failure analysis at a high-volume academic medical center.

Cima RR, Hale C, Kollengode A, Rogers JC, Cassivi SD, Deschamps C. Arch Surg. 2010;145:641-646.

STUDY

Implementation of resident work hour restrictions is associated with a reduction in mortality and provider-related complications on the surgical service: a concurrent analysis of 14,610 patients.

Privette AR, Shackford SR, Osler T, Ratliff J, Sartorelli K, Hebert JC. Ann Surg. 2009;250:316-321.

COMMENTARY

Perfusion safety: new initiatives and enduring principles.

Kurusz M. Perfusion. 2011;26(suppl 1):6-14.

STUDY

Analysis and prioritization of near-miss adverse events in a radiology department.

Thornton RH, Miransky J, Killen AR, Solomon SB, Brody LA. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2011;196:1120-1124.

STUDY

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.

STUDY

What ring tone should be used for patient safety? Early results with a Blackberry-based telementoring safety solution.

Parker A, Rubinfeld I, Azuh O, et al. Am J Surg. 2010;199:336-341.

STUDY

Pilot implementation of a perioperative protocol to guide operating room-to-intensive care unit patient handoffs.

Petrovic MA, Aboumatar H, Baumgartner WA, et al. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2012;26:11-16.

STUDY

Prevention of retained surgical sponges: a decision-analytic model predicting relative cost-effectiveness.

Regenbogen SE, Greenberg CC, Resch SC, et al. Surgery. 2009;145:527-535.

STUDY

Medication errors in paediatric outpatients.

Kaushal R, Goldmann DA, Keohane CA, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:e30.

STUDY

Preventing wrong site, procedure, and patient events using a common cause analysis.

Mallett R, Conroy M, Saslaw LZ, Moffatt-Bruce S. Am J Med Qual. 2012;27:21-29.

STUDY

Process changes to increase compliance with the Universal Protocol for bedside procedures.

Barsuk JH, Brake H, Caprio T, Barnard C, Anderson DY, Williams MV. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:947-949.

STUDY

Deconstructing intraoperative communication failures.

Hu YY, Arriaga AF, Peyre SE, Corso KA, Roth EM, Greenberg CC. J Surg Res. 2012;177:37-42.

STUDY

A policy-based intervention for the reduction of communication breakdowns in inpatient surgical care: results from a Harvard surgical safety collaborative.

Arriaga AF, Elbardissi AW, Regenbogen SE, et al. Ann Surg. 2011;253:849-854.

STUDY

Implementation of a surgical comprehensive unit-based safety program to reduce surgical site infections.

Wick EC, Hobson DB, Bennett JL, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2012;215;193-200.

STUDY

Communication failure in the operating room.

Halverson AL, Casey JT, Andersson J, et al. Surgery. 2011;49:305-310.

STUDY

Postoperative sepsis in the United States.

Vogel TR, Dombrovskiy VY, Carson JL, Graham AM, Lowry SF. Ann Surg. 2010;252:1065-1071.

STUDY

Risk factors and outcomes for foreign body left during a procedure: analysis of 413 incidents after 1,946,831 operations in children.

Camp M, Chang DC, Zhang Y, Chrouser K, Colombani PM, Abdullah F. Arch Surg. 2010;145:1085-1090.

STUDY

Effect of a 19-item surgical safety checklist during urgent operations in a global patient population.

Weiser TG, Haynes AB, Dziekan G, et al; Safe Surgery Saves Lives Investigators and Study Group. Ann Surg. 2010;251:976-980.

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