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NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Approved: no new National Patient Safety Goals, only minor revisions for 2011.

Jt Comm Perspect. August 2010;30:6-7.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Approved: 2010 National Patient Safety Goals.

Jt Comm Perspect. October 2009;29:1, 20-31.

BOOK/REPORT

Improving Communication During Transitions of Care.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission Resources; 2010. ISBN: 9781599404097.

CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY

Patient Safety: Supporting a Culture of Continuous Quality Improvement in Hospitals and Other Health Care Organizations.

Testimony before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee of Governmental Affairs, 108th Cong, 1st Sess (June 11, 2003) (statement of Carolyn M. Clancy, MD).

BOOK/REPORT

Safety in Doses.

London, UK: National Patient Safety Agency; 2009. ISBN: 9781906624088.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Hospital infections hard to gauge.

Hamill SD. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 18, 2010:A1.

STUDY

Using root cause analysis to reduce falls with injury in the psychiatric unit.

Lee A, Mills PD, Watts BV. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2012;34:304-311.

PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATION

Prohibition of Excessive Overtime for Nurses Act.

The General Assembly of Pennsylvania. HB957 (2005).

STUDY

Medication safety in a psychiatric hospital.

Rothschild JM, Mann K, Keohane CA, et al. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2007;29:156-162.

STUDY

Diagnostic errors and temporal stability in bipolar disorder.

López J, Baca E, Botillo C, et al. Actas Esp Psiquiatr. 2008;36:205-209.

REVIEW

Medication errors in mental healthcare: a systematic review.

Maidment ID, Lelliott P, Paton C. Qual Saf Health Care. 2006;15:409-413.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Learning from the best.

Grantham D. Behav Healthc. April 2010;30:22-24.

COMMENTARY

Code Blue—Where To?

Adams BD. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. October 2007.

STUDY

Toward understanding errors in inpatient psychiatry: a qualitative inquiry.

Cullen SW, Nath SB, Marcus SC. Psychiatr Q. 2010;81:197-205.

STUDY

Identifying and reducing medication errors in psychiatry: creating a culture of safety through the use of an adverse event reporting mechanism.

Jayaram G, Doyle D, Steinwachs D, Samuels J. J Psychiatr Pract. 2011;17:81–88.

COMMENTARY

Global priorities for patient safety research.

Bates DW, Larizgoitia I, Prasopa-Plaizier N, Jha AK; Research Priority Setting Working Group of the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety. BMJ. 2009;338:b1775.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Hospital mistakes kept secret.

Judd A. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. November 20, 2011.

COMMENTARY

When “Psychiatric” Symptoms are Not.

Goldberg RJ. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. February 2003.

REVIEW

Patient safety in psychiatric inpatient care: a literature review.

Kanerva A, Lammintakanen J, Kivinen T. J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs. 2012 Jul 8; [Epub ahead of print].

STUDY

Supporting a psychiatric hospital culture of safety.

Mahoney JS, Ellis TE, Garland G, Palyo N, Greene PK. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2012;18:299-306.

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