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STUDY

Prevalence of adverse events in pediatric intensive care units in the United States.

Agarwal S, Classen D, Larsen G, et al. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2010;11:568-578.

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Adverse drug event reporting in intensive care units: a survey of current practices.

Kane-Gill SL, Devlin JW. Ann Pharmacother. 2006;40:1267-73.

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A comparison of voluntarily reported medication errors in intensive care and general care units.

Kane-Gill SL, Kowiatek JG, Weber RJ. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:55-59.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Identification and Prevention of Common Adverse Drug Events in the Intensive Care Unit.

Papadopoulos J, Kane-Gill SL, Cooper B, eds. Crit Care Med. 2010;38:(suppl 6):S83-S264.

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Patient safety in intensive care: results from the multinational Sentinel Events Evaluation (SEE) study.

Valentin A, Capuzzo M, Guidet B, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2006;32:1591-1598.

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Effect of illness severity and comorbidity on patient safety and adverse events.

Naessens J, Campbell CR, Shah N, et al. Am J Med Qual. 2012;27:48-57.

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Medication errors during medical emergencies in a large, tertiary care, academic medical center.

Gokhman R, Seybert AL, Phrampus P, Darby J, Kane-Gill SL. Resuscitation. 2012;83:482-487.

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Adverse drug events in a paediatric intensive care unit: a prospective cohort.

Silva DCB, Araujo OR, Arduini RG, Alonso CFR, Shibata ARO, Troster EJ. BMJ Open. 2013;3:ee001868.

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Discontinuity of chronic medications in patients discharged from the intensive care unit.

Bell CM, Rahimi-Darabad P, Orner AI. J Gen Intern Med. 2006;21:937-941.

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Measuring communication in the surgical ICU: better communication equals better care.

Williams M, Hevelone N, Alban RF, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2010;210:17-22.

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Effectiveness of a barcode medication administration system in reducing preventable adverse drug events in a neonatal intensive care unit: a prospective cohort study.

Morriss FH Jr, Abramowitz PW, Nelson SP, et al. J Pediatr. 2009;197:678-685.

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An observational study of changes to long-term medication after admission to an intensive care unit.

Campbell AJ, Bloomfield R, Noble DW. Anaesthesia. 2006;61:1087-1092.

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Analysis of risk factors for adverse drug events in critically ill patients.

Kane-Gill SL, Kirisci L, Verrico MM, Rothschild JM. Crit Care Med. 2012;40:823-828.

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Risk of adverse drug events in neonates treated with opioids and the effect of a bar-code–assisted medication administration system.

Morriss FH, Jr, Abramowitz PW, Nelson SP, Milavetz G, Michael SL, Gordon SN. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2011;68:57-62.

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Review of patient safety incidents submitted from critical care units in England & Wales to the UK National Patient Safety Agency.

Thomas AN, Panchagnula U, Taylor RJ. Anaesthesia. 2009;64:1178-1185.

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Costs of adverse events in intensive care units.

Kaushal R, Bates DW, Franz C, Soukup JR, Rothschild JM. Crit Care Med. 2007;35:2479-2483.

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Pediatric safety incidents from an intensive care reporting system.

Skapik JL, Pronovost PJ, Miller MR, Thompson DA, Wu AW. J Patient Saf. 2009;5:95-101.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Leveraging technical and managerial changes to improve safety.

Pronovost P, Heifetz RA. Hosp Health Netw. March 27, 2007.

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Direct observation approach for detecting medication errors and adverse drug events in a pediatric intensive care unit.

Buckley MS, Erstad BL, Kopp BJ, Theodorou AA, Priestley G. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2007;8:145-152.

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What’s past is prologue: organizational learning from a serious patient injury.

Tamuz M, Franchois KE, Thomas EJ. Safety Sci. 2011;49:75-82.

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