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NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

A hospital races to learn lessons of Ferrari pit stop.

Naik G. Wall Street Journal. November 14, 2006:A1. [reprinted on Post-gazette.com].

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Safety in EMS.

Brice JH, Patterson PD, eds. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2012;16:1-108.

STUDY

Making patients safer: nurses' responses to patient safety alerts.

Lankshear A, Lowson K, Harden J, Lowson P, Saxby RC. J Adv Nurs. 2008;63:567-575.

STUDY

Variation in emergency medical services workplace safety culture.

Patterson PD, Huang DT, Fairbanks RJ, Simeone S, Weaver M, Wang HE. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2010;14:448-460.

STUDY

Ambulance personnel perceptions of near misses and adverse events in pediatric patients.

Cushman JT, Fairbanks RJ, O'Gara KG, et al. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2010;14:477-484.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

No more blame & shame: developing event-reporting systems may go a long way to reducing patient care errors in EMS.

Rajasekaran K, Fairbanks RJ, Shah MN. EMS Magazine. September 2008.

REVIEW

Clinical handover of patients arriving by ambulance to the emergency department: a literature review.

Bost N, Crilly J, Wallis M, Patterson E, Chaboyer W. Int Emerg Nurs. 2010;18:210-220.

STUDY

Emergency medical services provider perceptions of the nature of adverse events and near-misses in out-of-hospital care: an ethnographic view.

Fairbanks RJ, Crittenden CN, O'Gara KG, et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2008;15:633-640.

BOOK/REPORT

Safe Handover: Safe Patients.

Kingston, ACT, Australia: Australian Medical Association; 2006.

COMMENTARY

Moving Pains

Schell H, Wachter RM. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. July 2006.

STUDY

Design and trial of a new ambulance-to-emergency department handover protocol: 'IMIST-AMBO.'

Iedema R, Ball C, Daly B, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:627-633.

STUDY

The association between EMS workplace safety culture and safety outcomes.

Weaver MD, Wang HE, Fairbanks RJ, Patterson D. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2012;16:43-52.

STUDY

Towards safer neonatal transfer: the importance of critical incident review.

Moss SJ, Embleton ND, Fenton AC. Arch Dis Child. 2005;90:729-732.

STUDY

Medical emergency team calls in the radiology department: patient characteristics and outcomes.

Ott LK, Pinsky MR, Hoffman LA, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012 Mar 2; [Epup ahead of print].

COMMENTARY

All in the History

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

STUDY

Adverse events experienced while transferring the critically ill patient from the emergency department to the intensive care unit.

Gillman L, Leslie G, Williams T, et al. Emerg Med J. 2006;23:858-861.

REVIEW

Paramedics and the effects of shift work on sleep: a literature review.

Sofianopoulos S, Williams B, Archer F. Emerg Med J. 2012;29:152-155.

STUDY

EMS helicopter crashes: what influences fatal outcome?

Baker SP, Grabowski JG, Dodd RS, Shanahan DF, Lamb MW, Li GH. Ann Emerg Med. 2006;47:351-356.

STUDY

What causes adverse events in prehospital care? A human-factors approach.

Price R, Bendall JC, Patterson JA, Middleton PM. Emerg Med J. 2012 Jul 16; [Epub ahead of print].

STUDY

Epidemiology of adverse events in air medical transport.

Macdonald RD, Banks BA, Morrison M. Acad Emerg Med. 2008;15:923-931.

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