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AWARD RECIPIENT

Improving patient safety using interactive, evidence-based decision support tools.

Quinn MM, Mannion J. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2005;31:678-683.

AWARD RECIPIENT

Announcing 2009 Leapfrog top hospitals.

Washington, DC: Leapfrog Group; December 4, 2009.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Get me out alive.

Feldman R. The Washington Post. May 2, 2006:HE01.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Perfect is possible.

Berwick DM, Leape LL. Newsweek. October 16, 2006:70-71.

AWARD RECIPIENT

2005 Quest for Quality Prize.

Runy LA. Hosp Health Netw. September 2005;79:67-75.

AWARD RECIPIENT

2006 Quest for Quality Prize.

Runy LA. Hosp Health Netw. September 2006.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Pediatric safety.

Runy LA. Hosp Health Netw. May 2009.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Fixing America's hospitals.

Newsweek. October 16, 2006:44-68, 72.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Saving lives: hospitals have signed on to a six-part plan to avoid a multitude of unnecessary deaths.

Comarow A. US News & World Report. July 18, 2005;139:74,76,79.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

How we cut drug errors.

Nicol N, Huminski L. Mod Healthc. August 28, 2006;36:38.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

JCAHO tightens leash on medication reconciliation.

Perry LE. Drug Topics: Health-System Edition. March 20, 2006.

BOOK/REPORT

State of Healthcare 2006.

The Healthcare Commission. London, England: Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection; 2006. ISBN: 1845621182.

STUDY

A multidisciplinary approach to reduce central line–associated bloodstream infections.

McMullan C, Propper G, Schuhmacher C, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2013;39:61-69.

BOOK/REPORT classic

Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out.

Pronovost P, Vohr E. New York, NY: Hudson Street Press; 2010. ISBN: 9781594630644.

AUDIOVISUAL

Eye to eye: Donald Berwick.

"Eye to Eye with Katie Couric." CBS News Video. February 6, 2007.

AWARD RECIPIENT

22 California hospitals earn top status for outstanding patient safety & health care quality.

San Francisco, CA: The Leapfrog Group; May 2, 2006.

COMMENTARY

Disruptive clinician behavior: a persistent threat to patient safety.

Porto G, Lauve R. Patient Safety Qual Healthc. July/August 2006;3:16-24.

BOOK/REPORT classic

Josie's Story.

King S. New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press; 2009. ISBN: 9780802119209.

AUDIOVISUAL

Good News: How Hospitals Heal Themselves [documentary].

Washington, DC: CCM, Inc.; 2006. Crawford-Mason C (producer), Dobyns L (reporter); Management Wisdom Video Series.

STUDY

Reconciling medications at admission: safe practice recommendations and implementation strategies.

Rogers G, Alper E, Brunelle D, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2006;32:37-50.

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