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BOOK/REPORT

Improving Patient and Worker Safety—Opportunities for Synergy, Collaboration and Innovation.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission; 2012.

BOOK/REPORT

Through the Eyes of the Workforce: Creating Joy, Meaning, and Safer Health Care.

Roundtable on Joy and Meaning in Work and Workforce Safety, The Lucian Leape Institute. Boston, MA: National Patient Safety Foundation; 2013.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

The best medicine for fixing the modern hospital.

Mitchell R. Kaiser Health News and Fast Company. November 26, 2012.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

SafestHospital.org.

Safest Hospital Alliance.

BOOK/REPORT

Patient Safety: An Engineering Approach.

Dhillon BS. New York, NY: CRC Press; 2011. ISBN: 9781439873861.

COMMENTARY

Preventing medication errors in hospitals through a systems approach and technological innovation: a prescription for 2010.

Crane J, Crane FG. Hosp Top. Fall 2006;84:3-8.

STUDY

Patient safety begins with proper planning: a quantitative method to improve hospital design.

Birnbach DJ, Nevo I, Scheinman SR, Fitzpatrick M, Shekhter I, Lombard JL. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:462-465.

COMMENTARY

Quest for the ideal: a redesign of the medication use system.

Dang D, Feroli ER, Gill C, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2007;22:11-17.

COMMENTARY

Is your hospital hospitable?: how physical environment influences patient safety.

Stichler JF. Nurs Womens Health. 2007;11:506-511.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Anticoagulant safety practices call for pharmacist supervision.

Scott A. Drug Topics (Health-System Edition). November 10, 2008.

COMMENTARY

IV medication safety software implementation in a multihospital health system.

Cassano AT. Hosp Pharm. 2006;41:151-156.

STUDY

Provider and pharmacist responses to warfarin drug–drug interaction alerts: a study of healthcare downstream of CPOE alerts.

Miller AM, Boro MS, Korman NE, Davoren JB. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011;18(suppl 1):i45-i50.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Misprogramming PCA concentration leads to dosing errors.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. August 28, 2008;13:1-3.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Disruptive behavior affects hospital financial health.

Crane M. Medscape Medical News. December 11, 2010.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medication errors: a year in review.

Institute for Safe Medication Practices. Pharmacy Practice News. October 2011:7-14.

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.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

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

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

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities.

Washington, DC: The American Institute of Architects; 2006.

COMMENTARY

Sharkey JE, Van Leuven K, Radovich P. J Nurs Care Qual. 2012;27:346-351.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

For all the right reasons.

Hagland M. Healthc Informatics. 2009;26:40-44.

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