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Iatrogenic events resulting in intensive care admission: frequency, cause, and disclosure to patients and institutions.

Lehmann LS, Puopolo AL, Shaykevich S, Brennan TA. Am J Med. 2005;118:409-413.

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Toward learning from patient safety reporting systems.

Pronovost PJ, Thompson DA, Holzmueller CG, et al. J Crit Care. 2006;21:305-315.

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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.

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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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Cost implications of actual and potential adverse events prevented by interventions of a critical care pharmacist.

Kopp BJ, Mrsan M, Erstad BL, Duby JJ. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64:2483-2487.

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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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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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Quality of traditional surveillance for public reporting of nosocomial bloodstream infection rates.

Lin MY, Hota B, Khan YM, et al; CDC Prevention Epicenter Program. JAMA. 2010;304:2035-2041.

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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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Costs of intravenous adverse drug events in academic and nonacademic intensive care units.

Nuckols TK, Paddock SM, Bower AG, et al. Med Care. 2008;46:17-24.

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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.

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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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Evaluation of the role of the critical care pharmacist in identifying and avoiding or minimizing significant drug–drug interactions in medical intensive care patients.

Rivkin A, Yin H. J Crit Care. 2011;26:104.e1-104.e6.

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Overview of adverse events related to invasive procedures in the intensive care unit.

Pottier V, Daubin C, Lerolle N, et al. Am J Infect Control. 2012;40:241-246.

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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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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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A system factors analysis of "line, tube, and drain" incidents in the intensive care unit.

Needham DM, Sinopoli DJ, Thompson DA, et al. Crit Care Med. 2005;33:1701-1707.

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Increasing medication error reporting rates while reducing harm through simultaneous cultural and system-level interventions in an intensive care unit.

Abstoss KM, Shaw BE, Owens TA, Juno JL, Commiskey EL, Niedner MF. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;914-922.

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Patient safety event reporting in critical care: a study of three intensive care units.

Harris CB, Krauss MJ, Coopersmith CM, et al. Crit Care Med. 2007;35:1068-1076.

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