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COMMENTARY

Right? Left? Neither!

Howell EA, Chassin MR. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2006.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Statement on the prevention of retained foreign bodies after surgery.

Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons; October 2005.

REVIEW

Patient safety in dermatology: a review of the literature.

Cao LY, Taylor JS, Vidimos A. Dermatol Online J. 2010;16:3.

STUDY

Field test results of a new ambulatory care Medication Error and Adverse Drug Event Reporting System—MEADERS.

Hickner J, Zafar A, Kuo GM, et al. Ann Fam Med. 2010;8:517-525.

STUDY

Incidence and root cause analysis of wrong-site pain management procedures: a multicenter study.

Cohen SP, Hayek SM, Datta S, et al. Anesthesiology. 2010;112:711-718.

STUDY

What happens between visits? Adverse and potential adverse events among a low-income, urban, ambulatory population with diabetes.

Sarkar U, Handley MA, Gupta R, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:223-228.

STUDY

Medication errors in paediatric outpatients.

Kaushal R, Goldmann DA, Keohane CA, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:e30.

STUDY

Pediatric antidepressant medication errors in a national error reporting database.

Rinke ML, Bundy DG, Shore AD, Colantuoni E, Morlock LL, Miller MR. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2010;31:129-136.

STUDY

Outpatient adverse drug events identified by screening electronic health records.

Gandhi TK, Seger AC, Overhage JM, et al. J Patient Saf. 2010;6;91-96.

STUDY

Indication-based prescribing prevents wrong-patient medication errors in computerized provider order entry (CPOE).

Galanter W, Falck S, Burns M, Laragh M, Lambert BL. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013;20:477-481.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Are you a great diagnostician?

Yasgur BS. Medscape Business of Medicine. March 27, 2013.

COMMENTARY

Patient safety in the dialysis facility.

Kliger AS. Blood Purif. 2006;24:19-21.

COMMENTARY

Improving patient safety and communication through care rounds in a pediatric oncology outpatient clinic.

Blough CA, Walrath JM. J Nurs Care Qual. 2007;22:159-163.

STUDY

Types and origins of diagnostic errors in primary care settings.

Singh H, Giardina TD, Meyer AND, Forjuoh SN, Reis MD, Thomas EJ. JAMA Intern Med. 2013;173:418-425.

STUDY

Impact of implementing alerts about medication black-box warnings in electronic health records.

Yu DT, Seger DL, Lasser KE, et al. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2011;20:192-202.

STUDY

ARV medication errors: experience of a community-based HIV specialty clinic and review of the literature.

Cocohoba J, Dong BJ. Hosp Pharm. 2007;42:720-728.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medical errors are hard for doctors to admit, but it's wise to apologize to patients.

Jain M. Washington Post. May 27, 2013.

STUDY

The incidence and cost of unexpected hospital use after scheduled outpatient endoscopy.

Leffler DA, Kheraj R, Garud S, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:1752-1757.

COMMENTARY

It's All in the Syringe

Weingart SN. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. August 2006.

STUDY

Literacy and misunderstanding prescription drug labels.

Davis TC, Wolf MS, Bass PF III, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2006;145:887-94.

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