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STUDY

Preliminary assessment of pediatric health care quality and patient safety in the United States using readily available administrative data.

McDonald KM, Davies SM, Haberland CA, et al. Pediatrics. 2008;122:e416-e425.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

AHRQ Quality Indicators.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Transitions of Care Consensus Policy Statement American College of Physicians-Society of General Internal Medicine-Society of Hospital Medicine-American Geriatrics Society-American College of Emergency Physicians-Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.

Snow V, Beck D, Budnitz T, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24:971-976.

AUDIOVISUAL

Healthcare 411: Making hospital discharges safer for seniors.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. June 3, 2009.

STUDY

Association of a clinical knowledge support system with improved patient safety, reduced complications and shorter length of stay among Medicare beneficiaries in acute care hospitals in the United States.

Bonis PA, Pickens GT, Rind DM, Foster DA. Int J Med Inform. 2008;77:745-753.

BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Seventh Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

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

BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Quality Study: Fourth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; April 2007.

STUDY

Measurement for improvement: a survey of current practice in Australian public hospitals.

Brand CA, Tropea J, Ibrahim JE, et al. Med J Aust. 2008;189:35-40.

BOOK/REPORT

Safety in Doses.

London, UK: National Patient Safety Agency; 2009. ISBN: 9781906624088.

BOOK/REPORT classic

Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2011 User Comparative Database Report.

Sorra J, Famolaro T, Dyer N, Khanna K, Nelson D. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2011. AHRQ Publication No. 11-0030.

STUDY

The care transitions intervention: translating from efficacy to effectiveness.

Voss R, Gardner R, Baier R, Butterfield K, Lehrman S, Gravenstein S. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:1232-1237.

STUDY

Information exchange among physicians caring for the same patient in the community.

van Walraven C, Taljaard M, Bell CM, et al. CMAJ. 2008;179:1013-1018.

REVIEW

Deficits in communication and information transfer between hospital-based and primary care physicians: implications for patient safety and continuity of care.

Kripalani S, LeFevre F, Phillips CO, Williams MV, Basaviah P, Baker DW. JAMA. 2007;297:831-841.

BOOK/REPORT classic

Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2011.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; September 2011.

BOOK/REPORT

Managing Patients' Medicines after Discharge from Hospital.

London, UK: Care Quality Commission; October 2009. CQC-039-500-ESP-102009. ISBN: 9781845622442.

BOOK/REPORT

2009 National Healthcare Quality Report.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2010. AHRQ Publication No. 10-0003.

STUDY

Creating a better discharge summary: improvement in quality and timeliness using an electronic discharge summary.

O'Leary KJ, Liebovitz SM, Feinglass J, et al. J Hosp Med. 2009;4:219-225.

COMMENTARY

Lethal Cap.

Schillinger D. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. March 2004.

BOOK/REPORT

Patient Safety in Canada: An Update.

Ottawa, ON, Canada: Canadian Institute for Health Information; August 14, 2007.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

HAC Posting on Hospital Compare.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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