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•Device-related Complications (29)

•Diagnostic Errors (32)

•Identification Errors (19)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (73)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (28)

•Medication Safety (193)

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•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (10)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (94)

•Active Errors (75)

•Latent Errors (32)

•Near Miss (9)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (175)

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•Error Reporting and Analysis (134)

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•Human Factors Engineering (61)

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COMMENTARY

Creating high reliability in health care organizations.

Pronovost PJ, Berenholtz SM, Goeschel CA, et al. Health Serv Res. 2006;41:1599-1617.

STUDY

A multicenter, phased, cluster-randomized controlled trial to reduce central line–associated bloodstream infections in intensive care units.

Marsteller JA, Sexton JB, Hsu YJ, et al. Crit Care Med. 2012;40:2933-2939.

STUDY

Adherence to simple and effective measures reduces the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia: [L'observation de mesures simples et efficaces reduit l'incidence de pneumonie associee a la ventilation mecanique].

Baxter AD, Allan J, Bedard J, et al. Can J Anaesth. 2005;52:535-541.

REVIEW

Systematic review: antimicrobial urinary catheters to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection in hospitalized patients.

Johnson JR, Kuskowski MA, Wilt TJ. Ann Intern Med. 2006;144:116-126.

COMMENTARY

PCA Overdose

Doyle DJ. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. July/August 2005.

STUDY

Error or "act of God"? A study of patients' and operating room team members' perceptions of error definition, reporting, and disclosure.

Espin S, Levinson W, Regehr G, Baker GR, Lingard L. Surgery. 2006;139:6-14.

STUDY

Safety of patients isolated for infection control.

Stelfox HT, Bates DW, Redelmeier DA. JAMA. 2003;290:1899-1905.

STUDY

Implementing and validating a comprehensive unit-based safety program.

Pronovost P, Weast B, Rosenstein B. J Patient Saf. 2005;1:33-40.

STUDY

Design and implementation of an ICU incident registry.

van der Veer S, Cornet R, de Jonge E. Int J Med Inform. 2007;76:103-108.

STUDY

Development of the ICU safety reporting system.

Wu AW, Holzmueller CG, Lubomski LH, et al. J Patient Saf. 2005;1:23-32.

STUDY

Safety Climate Survey: reliability of results from a multicenter ICU survey.

Kho ME, Carbone JM, Lucas J, Cook DJ. Qual Saf Health Care. 2005;14:273-278.

COMMENTARY

Deciphering the Code

Goldstein MK. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. Febuary 2006.

COMMENTARY

Teamwork and team training in the ICU: where do the similarities with aviation end?

Reader TW, Cuthbertson BH. Crit Care. 2011;15:313.

STUDY

Increased catheter-related bloodstream infection rates after the introduction of a new mechanical valve intravenous access port.

Maragakis LL, Bradley KL, Song X, et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2006;27:67-70.

STUDY

In-house, overnight physician staffing: a cross-sectional survey of Canadian adult and pediatric intensive care units.

Parshuram CS, Kirpalani H, Mehta S, Granton J, Cook D, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Crit Care Med. 2006;34:1674-78.

REVIEW

Failure mode and effects analysis application to critical care medicine.

Duwe B, Fuchs BD, Hansen-Flaschen J. Crit Care Clin. 2005;21:21-30, vii.

STUDY

A system factors analysis of "line, tube, and drain" incidents in the intensive care unit.

Needham DM, Sinopoli DJ, Thompson DA, et al. Crit Care Med. 2005;33:1701-1707.

STUDY

Interruptive communication patterns in the intensive care unit ward round.

Alvarez G, Coiera E. Int J Med Inform. 2005;74:791-796.

STUDY

Drug-induced hypoglycaemia--new insight into an old problem.

Ching CK, Lai CK, Poon WT, et al. Hong Kong Med J. 2006;12:334-338.

COMMENTARY

Safe medication prescribing and monitoring in the outpatient setting.

Shojania KG. CMAJ. 2006;174:1257-1258.

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