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COMMENTARY

Crushing Chest Pain: A Missed Opportunity.

Graber M. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. January 2004.

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Missed Appendicitis.

Adams JG. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. June 2003.

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Transfusion "Slip".

Kaplan HS. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. February 2004.

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X-ray Flip.

Shapiro MJ. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. February 2004.

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The Dropped Lung.

Heffner JE. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2003.

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To LP or not LP.

Landrigan CP. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. October 2003.

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Lethal Vertigo.

Furman JM. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. June 2004.

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No Blood, Please.

Liang BA. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2004.

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Charcoal Lavage of the Lungs.

Wigton RS. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. October 2003.

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Autopsy Revelation.

Shojania KG. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. March 2004.

STUDY

Airway carts: a systems-based approach to airway safety.

Kane BG, Bond WF, Worrilow CC, Richardson DM, on behalf of the Lehigh Valley Hospital Airway Task Force. J Patient Saf. 2006;2:154-161.

COMMENTARY

All in the History

Fee C. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. February/March 2009.

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Delay in Initiating Antibiotics Leads to Fatal Error.

Bellini LM. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. February 2004.

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Discharge Fumbles.

Forster A. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. December 2004.

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Bloody BP Cuff.

Madan AK. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2003.

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Undiagnosed Vaginal Bleeding.

Mandelblatt J. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. February 2004.

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Don't Push.

Meltzer HY. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. November 2003.

BOOK/REPORT

Lucado J, Paez K, Elixhauser A. HCUP Statistical Brief #109. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2011.

STUDY

Unplanned transfers to a medical intensive care unit: causes and relationship to preventable errors in care.

Bapoje SR, Gaudiani JL, Narayanan V, Albert RK. J Hosp Med. 2011;6:68-72.

COMMENTARY

Caution, Interrupted.

Wears RL. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. September 2004.

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