AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Device-related Complications (140)

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•Identification Errors (85)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (383)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (93)

•Medication Safety (802)

•Medical Complications (412)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (77)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (722)

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Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (731)

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•Error Reporting and Analysis (860)

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•Culture of Safety (448)

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COMMENTARY

Using incident reporting to improve patient safety: a conceptual model.

Pronovost PJ, Holzmueller CG, Young J, et al. J Patient Saf. 2007;3:27-33.

STUDY

The need for organizational change in patient safety initiatives.

Anderson JG, Ramanujam R, Hensel D, Anderson MM, Sirio CA. Int J Med Inform. 2006;75:809-817.

COMMENTARY

Patient safety in an interprofessional learning environment.

Horsburgh M, Merry AF, Seddon M. Med Educ. 2005;39:512-513.

STUDY

From the school of nursing quality and safety officer: nursing students' use of safety reporting tools and their perception of safety issues in clinical settings.

Cooper E. J Prof Nurs. 2013;29:109-116.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Ounce of prevention: to reduce errors, hospitals prescribe innovative designs.

Naik G. The Wall Street Journal. May 8, 2006:A1.

BOOK/REPORT

Framework for a High Performance Health System for the United States.

The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. New York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund; August 2006.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Safely implementing health information and converging technologies.

Sentinel Event Alert. December 11, 2008;(42):1-4.

COMMENTARY

Key Issues in Developing a Successful Hospital Safety Program

Whittington J. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. July 2006.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

North Carolina Center for Hospital Quality and Patient Safety.

2400 Weston Parkway, Cary, NC 27514.

COMMENTARY

Effective strategies to increase reporting of medication errors in hospitals.

Force MV, Deering L, Hubbe J, et al. J Nurs Adm. 2006;36:34-41.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

If safety is your yardstick, measuring culture from the top down must be a priority.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. March 22, 2007;12:1-2.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

No bad apples.

Thrall TH. Hosp Health Netw. December 2008.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

What pilots can teach hospitals about patient safety.

Murphy K. New York Times. October 31, 2006:F5.

COMMENTARY classic

Fixing healthcare from the inside, today.

Spear SJ. Harv Bus Rev. September 2005;83:78-91.

STUDY

Organizational and cultural changes for providing safe patient care.

Odwazny R, Hasler S, Abrams R, McNutt R. Qual Manag Health Care. 2005;14:132-143.

COMMENTARY

Critical conversations: a call for a nonprocedural "time out."

Sehgal NL, Fox M, Sharpe BA, Vidyarthi AR, Blegen M, Wachter RM. J Hosp Med. 2011;6:157-162.

STUDY

Nonpunitive medication error reporting: 3-year findings from one hospital's primum non nocere initiative.

Potylycki MJ, Kimmel SR, Ritter M, et al. J Nurs Adm. 2006;36:370-376.

COMMENTARY

In Conversation with...Allan Frankel, MD

AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. July 2006.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Quality & Safety Research Group.

Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine.

REVIEW

What is patient safety culture? A review of the literature.

Sammer CE, Lykens K, Singh KP, Mains DA, Lackan NA. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2010;42:156-165.

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