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STUDY

Stressful intensive care unit medical crises: how individual responses impact on team performance.

Piquette D, Reeves S, Leblanc VR. Crit Care Med. 2009;37:1251-1255.

REVIEW

What is the value and impact of quality and safety teams? A scoping review.

White DE, Straus SE, Stelfox HT, et al. Implement Sci. 2011;6:97.

STUDY

Assessing and improving safety climate in a large cohort of intensive care units.

Sexton JB, Berenholtz SM, Goeschel CA, et al. Crit Care Med. 2011;39:934-939.

STUDY

Improving patient safety in intensive care units in Michigan.

Pronovost PJ, Berenholtz SM, Goeschel C, et al. J Crit Care. 2008;23:207-221.

STUDY

The impact of a tele-ICU on provider attitudes about teamwork and safety climate.

Chu-Weininger MYL, Wueste L, Lucke JF, Weavind L, Mazabob J, Thomas EJ. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:e39.

REVIEW

Patient safety in the NICU: a comprehensive review.

Samra HA, McGrath JM, Rollins W. J Perinat Neonatal Nurs. 2011;25:123-132.

REVIEW

Quality and safety in the intensive care unit.

Stockwell DC, Slonim AD. J Intensive Care Med. 2006;21:199-210.

STUDY

Drug formulations that require potentially inaccurate volumes to prepare doses for infants and children.

Uppal N, Yasseen B, Seto W, Parshuram CS. CMAJ. 2011;183:E246-E248.

STUDY

Worries and concerns experienced by nurse specialists during inter-hospital transports of critically ill patients: a critical incident study.

Gustafsson M, Wennerholm S, Fridlund B. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2010;26:138-145.

REVIEW

Teamwork and patient safety in dynamic domains of healthcare: a review of the literature.

Manser T. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2009;53:143-151.

STUDY

The effect of multidisciplinary care teams on intensive care unit mortality.

Kim MM, Barnato AE, Angus DC, Fleisher LF, Kahn JM. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:369-376.

REVIEW

Developing a team performance framework for the intensive care unit.

Reader TW, Flin R, Mearns K, Cuthbertson BH. Crit Care Med. 2009;37:1787-1793.

REVIEW

Can we make postoperative patient handovers safer? A systematic review of the literature.

Segall N, Bonifacio AS, Schroeder RA, et al; Durham VA Patient Safety Center of Inquiry. Anesth Analg. 2012;115:102-115.

STUDY

The value of adding a verbal report to written handoffs on early readmission following prolonged respiratory failure.

Hess DR, Tokarczyk A, O’Malley M, Gavaghan S, Sullivan J, Schmidt U. Chest. 2010;138:1475-1479.

STUDY

Increasing patient safety event reporting in 2 intensive care units: A prospective interventional study.

Ilan R, Squires M, Panopoulos C, Day A. J Crit Care. 2011;26:e11-e18.

STUDY

Team situation awareness and the anticipation of patient progress during ICU rounds.

Reader TW, Flin R, Mearns K, Cuthbertson BH. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:1035-1042.

STUDY

Evaluating efforts to optimize TeamSTEPPS implementation in surgical and pediatric intensive care units.

Mayer CM, Cluff L, Lin WT, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37:365-374.

STUDY

A prospective observational study of physician handoff for intensive-care-unit-to-ward patient transfers.

Li P, Stelfox HT, Ghali WA. Am J Med. 2011;124:860-867.

REVIEW

Medication errors in critical care: risk factors, prevention and disclosure.

Camiré E, Moyen E, Stelfox HT. CMAJ. 2009;180:936-943.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

A hospital races to learn lessons of Ferrari pit stop.

Naik G. Wall Street Journal. November 14, 2006:A1. [reprinted on Post-gazette.com].

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