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COMMENTARY

Creating high reliability in health care organizations.

Pronovost PJ, Berenholtz SM, Goeschel CA, et al. Health Serv Res. 2006;41:1599-1617.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Practitioners agree on medication reconciliation value, but frustration and difficulties abound.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. July 13, 2006;11:1-2.

STUDY

Patient safety concerns arising from test results that return after hospital discharge.

Roy CL, Poon EG, Karson AS, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2005;143:121-128.

STUDY

Medical errors arising from outsourcing laboratory and radiology services.

Chasin BS, Elliott SP, Klotz SA. Am J Med. 2007;120:819.e9-11.

STUDY

Medical emergency team calls in the radiology department: patient characteristics and outcomes.

Ott LK, Pinsky MR, Hoffman LA, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012 Mar 2; [Epup ahead of print].

COMMENTARY

Medication bar coding: to scan or not to scan?

Galvin L, McBeth S, Hasdorff C, Tillson M, Thomas S. Comput Inform Nurs. 2007;25:86-92.

COMMENTARY

Preparing your hospital for compliance with The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals.

Murdaugh L, Jordin R. Hosp Pharm. 2008;43:728-733.

STUDY

"I wish I had seen this test result earlier!": dissatisfaction with test result management systems in primary care.

Poon EG, Gandhi TK, Sequist TD, Murff HJ, Karson AS, Bates DW. Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:2223-2228.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

2008 Recommendations for Pre-Anesthesia Checkout Procedures.

ASA Committee on Equipment and Facilities. Park Ridge, IL: American Society of Anesthesiologists; 2008.

STUDY

The Safety Organizing Scale: development and validation of a behavioral measure of safety culture in hospital nursing units.

Vogus TJ, Sutcliffe KM. Med Care. 2007;45:46-54.

STUDY

Excess dosing of antiplatelet and antithrombin agents in the treatment of non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes.

Alexander KP, Chen AY, Roe MT, et al; CRUSADE Investigators. JAMA. 2005;294:3108-3116.

BOOK/REPORT

Recommendations for Safe Use of Insulin in Hospitals.

Bethesda, MD: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists; 2006.

STUDY

Avoiding handover fumbles: a controlled trial of a structured handover tool versus traditional handover methods.

Payne CE, Stein JM, Leong T, Dressler DD. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:925-932.

COMMENTARY

Best-practice protocols: Preventing adverse drug events.

Weir VL. Nurs Manage. 2005;36:24-30.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Health care worker fatigue and patient safety.

Sentinel Event Alert. December 14, 2011;(48):1-4.

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.

BOOK/REPORT

Unintended exposure of patient Lisa Norris during radiotherapy treatment at the Beatson Oncology Centre, Glasgow in January 2006.

Johnson AM. Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Executive; 2006.

STUDY

Patient misidentification in the neonatal intensive care unit: quantification of risk.

Gray JE, Suresh G, Ursprung R, et al. Pediatrics. 2006;117:e43-e47.

STUDY

"Did I do as best as the system would let me?" Healthcare professional views on hospital to home care transitions.

Davis MM, Devoe M, Kansagara D, Nicolaidis C, Englander H. J Gen Intern Med. 2012;27:1649-1656.

STUDY

Publicly available hospital comparison web sites: determination of useful, valid, and appropriate information for comparing surgical quality.

Leonardi MJ, McGory ML, Ko CY. Arch Surg. 2007;142:863-869.

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