AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The Collection > Health Care Providers

Narrow By

clear selections

Safety Target

•Device-related Complications (121)

•Diagnostic Errors (247)

•Identification Errors (84)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (293)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (29)

•Medication Safety (759)

•Medical Complications (369)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (87)

•Surgical Complications (335)

•Transfusion Complications (14)

•Psychological and Social Complications (54)

Origin/Sponsor

•Africa (6)

•Asia (44)

•Australia and New Zealand (162)

•Central and South America (11)

•Europe (382)

•North America (1578)

Resource Types

•Clinical Guideline (4)

•Journal Article (1861)

•Legislation/Regulation (27)

•Meeting/Conference (10)

•Newsletter/Journal (3)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (110)

•Press Release/Announcement (15)

•Special or Theme Issue (24)

•Tools/Toolkit (22)

•Web Resource (45)

•Grant (4)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (927)

•Active Errors (627)

•Latent Errors (171)

•Near Miss (59)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (595)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (129)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (615)

•Communication Improvement (606)

•Human Factors Engineering (352)

•Teamwork (190)

•Specialization of Care (183)

•Logistical Approaches (131)

•Culture of Safety (228)

•Technologic Approaches (426)

•Education and Training (431)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (10)

Target Audience
< All

Health Care Providers

•Allied Health Professionals (1)

•Clinical Technologists (15)

Setting of Care

•Psychiatric Facilities (10)

•Residential Facilities (45)

•Ambulatory Care (244)

•Outpatient Surgery (29)

•Patient Transport (32)

1 - 20 of 2225

Show ExcerptDon't Show Excerpt

dropdown

STUDY

Changing cardiac arrest and hospital mortality rates through a medical emergency team takes time and constant review.

Santamaria J, Tobin A, Holmes J. Crit Care Med. 2010;38:445-450.

STUDY

Attitudes and barriers to a medical emergency team system at a tertiary paediatric hospital.

Azzopardi P, Kinney S, Moulden A, Tibballs J. Resuscitation. 2011;82:167-174.

STUDY

Accuracy of medication documentation in hospital discharge summaries: a retrospective analysis of medication transcription errors in manual and electronic discharge summaries.

Callen J, McIntosh J, Li J. Int J Med Inform. 2010;79:58-64.

STUDY

A trigger tool fails to identify serious errors and adverse events in pediatric otolaryngology.

Lander L, Roberson DW, Plummer KM, Forbes PW, Healy GB, Shah RK. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2010;143:480-486.

COMMENTARY

A Mid-Summer Fog

Braddock CH. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. November 2008.

STUDY

Communication errors in dispatch of air medical transport.

Vilensky D, Macdonald RD. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2011;15:39-43.

STUDY

Patient record review of the incidence, consequences, and causes of diagnostic adverse events.

Zwaan L, de Bruijne M, Wagner C, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:1015-1021.

STUDY

Inability of providers to predict unplanned readmissions.

Allaudeen N, Schnipper JL, Orav EJ, Wachter RM, Vidyarthi AR. J Gen Intern Med. 2011;26:771-776.

STUDY

Using Medical Emergency Teams to detect preventable adverse events.

Iyengar A, Baxter A, Forster AJ. Crit Care. 2009;13:R126.

STUDY

Errors of diagnosis in pediatric practice: a multisite survey.

Singh H, Thomas EJ, Wilson L, et al. Pediatrics. 2010;126:70-79.

STUDY

Impact of a comprehensive safety initiative on patient-controlled analgesia errors.

Paul JE, Bertram B, Antoni K, et al. Anesthesiology. 2010;113:1427-1432.

STUDY

A survey of nurses' beliefs about the medical emergency team system in a Canadian tertiary hospital.

Bagshaw SM, Mondor EE, Scouten C, et al; Capital Health Medical Emergency Team Investigators. Am J Crit Care. 2010;19:74-83.

STUDY

Multimodal system designed to reduce errors in recording and administration of drugs in anaesthesia: prospective randomised clinical evaluation.

Merry AF, Webster CS, Hannam J, et al. BMJ. 2011;343:d5543.

STUDY

An in-depth analysis of medication errors in hospitalized patients with HIV.

Snyder AM, Klinker K, Orrick JJ, Janelle J, Winterstein AG. Ann Pharmacother. 2011;45:459-468.

STUDY

Hospital costs associated with adverse events in gynecological oncology.

Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan S, Gordon LG, Sanday K, et al. Gynecol Oncol. 2011;121:70-75.

STUDY

Electronic health record-based surveillance of diagnostic errors in primary care.

Singh H, Giardina TD, Forjuoh SN, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;22:93-100.

STUDY

Critical incidents related to cardiac arrests reported to the Danish Patient Safety Database.

Andersen PO, Maaløe R, Andersen HB. Resuscitation. 2010;81:312-316.

STUDY

Preventing potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized older patients with a computerized provider order entry warning system.

Mattison MLP, Afonso KA, Ngo LH, Mukamal KJ. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:1331-1336.

STUDY

Wrong-site sinus surgery in otolaryngology.

Shah RK, Nussenbaum B, Kienstra M, et al. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2010;143:37-41.

STUDY

ED overcrowding is associated with an increased frequency of medication errors.

Kulstad EB, Sikka R, Sweis RT, Kelley KM, Rzechula KH. Am J Emerg Med. 2010;28:304-309.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >