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Safety Target

•Device-related Complications (81)

•Diagnostic Errors (81)

•Identification Errors (52)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (257)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (46)

•Medication Safety (602)

•Medical Complications (240)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (41)

•Surgical Complications (184)

•Transfusion Complications (9)

•Psychological and Social Complications (96)

Origin/Sponsor

•Asia (45)

•Australia and New Zealand (82)

•Central and South America (4)

•Europe (284)

•North America (1673)

Resource Types

•Audiovisual (16)

•Award (8)

•Book/Report (139)

•Clinical Guideline (3)

•Journal Article (1614)

•Legislation/Regulation (20)

•Meeting/Conference (13)

•Newsletter/Journal (2)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (196)

•Press Release/Announcement (6)

•Special or Theme Issue (44)

•Tools/Toolkit (48)

•Web Resource (41)

•Grant (8)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (407)

•Active Errors (313)

•Latent Errors (361)

•Near Miss (49)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (555)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (188)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (784)

•Communication Improvement (508)

•Human Factors Engineering (268)

•Teamwork (341)

•Specialization of Care (122)

•Logistical Approaches (216)

•Culture of Safety (669)

•Technologic Approaches (301)

•Education and Training (409)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (9)

•Complementary and Alternative Medicine (1)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (1529)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (1835)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (744)

•Patients (106)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (1612)

•Psychiatric Facilities (16)

•Residential Facilities (95)

•Ambulatory Care (155)

•Outpatient Surgery (17)

•Patient Transport (13)

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COMMENTARY

The Unfinished Patient Safety Agenda

Aiken LH. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. July/August 2005.

COMMENTARY

Staffing matters—every shift.

West G, Patrician PA, Loan L. Am J Nurs. 2012;112:22-27.

COMMENTARY

A plan for achieving significant improvement in patient safety.

Johnson K, Maultsby CC. J Nurs Care Qual. 2007;22:164-171.

STUDY

Operational failures and interruptions in hospital nursing.

Tucker AL, Spear SJ. Health Serv Res. 2006;41:643-662.

STUDY

Nurse staffing in hospitals: is there a business case for quality?

Needleman J, Buerhaus PI, Stewart M, Zelevinsky K, Mattke S. Health Aff (Millwood). 2006;25:204-211.

STUDY

Identifying the latent failures underpinning medication administration errors: an exploratory study.

Lawton R, Carruthers S, Gardner P, Wright J, McEachan RR. Health Serv Res. 2012;47:1437-1459.

STUDY

Behavioral integrity for safety, priority of safety, psychological safety, and patient safety: a team-level study.

Leroy H, Dierynck B, Anseel F, et al. J Appl Psychol. 2012;97:1273-1281.

COMMENTARY

Working conditions that support patient safety.

Hughes RG, Clancy CM. J Nurs Care Qual. 2005;20:289-292.

COMMENTARY

Workaround Error

Pape T. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. Febuary 2006.

REVIEW

The effect of nurse staffing patterns on medical errors and nurse burnout.

Garrett C. AORN J. 2008;87:1191-1192, 1194, 1196-1200, 1202-1204.

STUDY

Achieving quality improvement in the nursing home: influence of nursing leadership on communication and teamwork.

Vogelsmeier A, Scott-Cawiezell J. J Nurs Care Qual. 2011;26:236-242.

STUDY

Performance-based payment incentives increase burden and blame for hospital nurses.

Kurtzman ET, O'Leary D, Sheingold BH, Devers KJ, Dawson EM, Johnson JE. Health Aff (Millwood). 2011;30:211-218.

STUDY

Nurses' and nursing assistants' perceptions of patient safety culture in nursing homes.

Hughes CM, Lapane KL. Int J Qual Health Care. 2006;18:281-286.

COMMENTARY

A model for developing high-reliability teams.

Riley W, Davis SE, Miller KK, McCullough M. J Nurs Manag. 2010;18:556-563.

STUDY

Nursing home error and level of staff credentials.

Scott-Cawiezell J, Pepper GA, Madsen RW, Petroski G, Vogelsmeier A, Zellmer D. Clin Nurs Res. 2007;16:72-78.

STUDY

It's always something: hospital nurses managing risk.

Groves PS, Finfgeld-Connett D, Wakefield BJ. Clin Nurs Res. 2012 Dec 4; [Epub ahead of print].

STUDY

The impact of nursing work environments on patient safety outcomes: the mediating role of burnout engagement.

Spence Laschinger HK, Leiter MP. J Nurs Adm. 2006;36:259-267.

STUDY

Safety culture of nursing homes: opinions of top managers.

Castle NG, Wagner LM, Ferguson JC, Handler SM. Health Care Manage Rev. 2011;36:175-187.

STUDY

Impact of a team and leaders-directed strategy to improve nurses' adherence to hand hygiene guidelines: a cluster randomised trial.

Huis A, Schoonhoven L, Grol R, Donders R, Hulscher M, van Achterberg T. Int J Nurs Stud. 2013;50:464-474.

COMMENTARY

Wrong Route for Nutrients

Scott-Cawiezell JR, AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. July 2008.

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