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Safety Target

•Device-related Complications (181)

•Diagnostic Errors (181)

•Identification Errors (134)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (461)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (101)

•Medication Safety (1188)

•Medical Complications (496)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (101)

•Surgical Complications (413)

•Transfusion Complications (23)

•Psychological and Social Complications (151)

Origin/Sponsor

•Africa (6)

•Asia (31)

•Australia and New Zealand (69)

•Central and South America (5)

•Europe (249)

•North America (3866)

Resource Types

•Clinical Guideline (8)

•Journal Article (2659)

•Legislation/Regulation (80)

•Meeting/Conference (36)

•Newsletter/Journal (15)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (684)

•Press Release/Announcement (39)

•Special or Theme Issue (57)

•Tools/Toolkit (82)

•Web Resource (162)

•Grant (9)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (814)

•Active Errors (638)

•Latent Errors (298)

•Near Miss (72)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (1017)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (694)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (1364)

•Communication Improvement (1039)

•Human Factors Engineering (485)

•Teamwork (287)

•Specialization of Care (272)

•Logistical Approaches (311)

•Culture of Safety (591)

•Technologic Approaches (709)

•Education and Training (826)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (12)

•Complementary and Alternative Medicine (1)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (3117)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (3021)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (1629)

•Patients (724)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (2837)

•Psychiatric Facilities (19)

•Residential Facilities (70)

•Ambulatory Care (401)

•Outpatient Surgery (50)

•Patient Transport (27)

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NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Preventing fatal errors.

Bailey B, Sevrens Lyons J. The Mercury News. November 27, 2005.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Sarasota Memorial Hospital reviewed after restrained patient dies.

Gulliver D. Sarasota Herald Tribune. November 7, 2006:BS1.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Hospitals save money, but safety is questioned.

Klein A. The Washington Post. December 11, 2005:A01.

BOOK/REPORT

Adverse Health Events in Minnesota: Ninth Annual Public Report.

St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Department of Health; January 2013.

COMMENTARY

Medication errors in family practice, in hospitals and after discharge from the hospital: an ethical analysis.

Clark PA. J Law Med Ethics. 2004;32:349-357.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Report: hospital errors cost 18 lives.

Rojas-Burke J. Oregonian. January 30, 2007:B01.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medicare says it won't cover hospital errors.

Pear R. New York Times. August 19, 2007.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medical errors still claiming many lives.

Weise E. USA Today. May 18, 2005.

COMMENTARY

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005: provisions and potential opportunities.

Liang BA, Riley W, Rutherford W, Hamman W. Am J Med Qual. 2007;22:8-12.

COMMENTARY

Our broken health care system and how to fix it: an essay on health law and policy.

Jost TS. Wake Forest Law Rev. 2006;41:537-618.

COMMENTARY

Liability reform should make patients safer: "Avoidable classes of events" are a key improvement.

Bovbjerg RR, Tancredi LR. J Law Med Ethics. 2005;33:478-500.

BOOK/REPORT classic

Serious Reportable Events in Healthcare—2011 Update.

Washington, DC: National Quality Forum; 2011. ISBN: 9780982842188.

BOOK/REPORT

Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2010.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; September 2010.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

USP initiatives for the safe use of medical gases.

Zaidi K, Curry PD Jr, Becker SC. Pharmaceutical Technology. November 2, 2005;29:102-103.

COMMENTARY classic

Healthcare in a land called PeoplePower: nothing about me without me.

Delbanco T, Berwick DM, Boufford JI, et al. Health Expect. 2001;4:144-150.

COMMENTARY

Organizational Change in the Face of Highly Public Errors—I. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Experience

Conway JB, Weingart SN. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2005.

COMMENTARY

Revisiting duty-hour limits — IOM recommendations for patient safety and resident education.

Iglehart JK. N Engl J Med. 2008;359:2633-2635.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medical mistakes no longer billable: bold steps taken by state to reduce hospital errors.

Smith S. Boston Globe. June 19, 2008;Metro section:1B

BOOK/REPORT

Hospital Reporting Program.

Portland, OR: Oregon Patient Safety Commission.

BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Seventh Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; March 2010.

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